Slide 3 of 14
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[keep slow, look forceful and eyewise--performance matters]
tariffs are what countries have done at various times to isolate the conditions of economic development on behalf of the well-being of their own citizens, or of the citizens of other countries for which they feel a responsibility. it's an attempt to isolate the conditions of economic leverage.
Most notorious case, that *everyone* associates with trade in many parts of the world, especially among trade-sceptical sectors of the population: the so-called "honest bananas" cases.
"It is not possible to kill a person by hitting that person over the head with a banana. It is, however, possible to kill a person over bananas by hitting that person over the head with a machete."
there's a certain amount of violence in the world, past and present, future....
The eu, in trying to control its bananas, is actually trying to control the violence done in the distant past by european member states against their former colonies in various parts of the world. by inflating the prices of bananas to artificially support decrepit economies--decrepit in part due to that violence--europe is in fact debilitating these economies even further.
Conversely, the eu is trying to control the bananas of others. Yes, violence may have been committed in Central America on behalf of banana concerns that are then not permitted, according to EU regulations, to enter the European market.
This may help quell an imagined cycle of violence, but it commits another violence: it precludes the development of both the European market, and the Central American political market, if we may call it that.
What we have is al obsession with violence against the rational functioning of the marketplace.
[if laugh: why did we choose to have the biggest struggle over the funniest fruit?]
