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Re:China by koube on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:49PM (#21587720)
> "America’s low-income households benefit the most from free trade and having access to cheap imports."

This is a description of a property or behavior of a system.

> But defining good as having access to cheaper goods is an intensely political statement

This would be apolitical in all but the most semantic of arguments. "Buying the things I want to buy" is assumed to be a good thing by the vast majority of people.

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Re:China by CharlesColeman on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @03:20PM (#21588062)
>> But defining good as having access to cheaper goods is an intensely political statement

> This would be apolitical in all but the most semantic of arguments. "Buying the things I want to buy" is assumed to be a good thing by the vast majority of people.

That's a myopic view: it's not the only good thing, and it's arguable that it's not even the most important good thing. The politics are embedded in the shape of the myopia.

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Re:China by koube on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:09PM (#21588536)
Arguing against that being the most import good thing is the most ridiculous straw man.
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