You seem to claim we should look after others first - the most needy specifically. That's been tried, and it doesn't work. When you help the needy at the expense of the rest, everyone eventually becomes needy.
You've lost track of the point. It was about free trade not charity. Are you saying trading with poor people makes more people poor?
In many countries, that is exactly what has happened. Other events factor in too - population growth and decolonization for example. But there are many places in the world worse off today than they were in the 1960's - i.e. most of sub-Saharan Africa as an example.
How are we doing now? Are trade restrictions on poor countries too little, too much or about right?
We're doing the wrong things. Instead of helping build local businesses and economies, thus developing these nations, we're instead letting big multinationals who prey off of the low labour costs.
Bryan
