Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit

Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by masklinn on Friday June 24, 2016 @03:39PM (#11972799)

> The EU initially healed some of those wounds, but what it was going to become was inevitable and predictable.

Of course free trade was an inevitable consequence of european integration, I never claimed otherwise.

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by djschnei on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:05PM (#11973001)

Clearly, free trade can and did exist before 1992, 1957, and 1942. My point was that the initial idea behind the union (in it's various forms) was to ease the pain felt by the existing regressive protectionism of the region. All in all, considering the relatively small size of the world (economically), this was a great idea. However, over time the union has taken on even more restrictive forms of protectionism except now the border is different. The results, predictably, are the same.

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by dragonwriter on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:06PM (#11973017)

> Clearly, free trade can and did exist before 1992, 1957, and 1942.

Trade did exist. Free trade less so, and a durable expectation of free trade on predictable terms (free or otherwise) even less so.

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by djschnei on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:18PM (#11973101)

Not sure how I'm failing to make my point. I said post WW Europe had regressive protectionism. The initial unions did alleviate some of that. However, over time it turned into a larger version of the initial problem.

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by jerven on Friday June 24, 2016 @07:25PM (#11974272)

Only for those outside of the union... inside it was much better and getting better.

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