You just made my point for me. Finally. You clearly said that subsistence farming without money is not a great life.


Originally Posted By: ImagingGeek

leave the farms during periods of difficulty - drought, etc.

Would have happened with foreign trade or not.

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Or they are forced out by larger land owners.

You mean armed land owners right? Violence is not foreign trade, it existed long before that.

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Or their land is lost to desertification (a very common problem in sub-saharan africa)

Because of unsustainable farming practices perhaps?

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or urbanization.


I don't like my neighbor's garden. I'll deploy urbanization onto it and it'll be gone {{Poof}}.

You haven't demonstrated how poor countries would be better off without free foreign trade. Maybe they just wouldn't.