Indeed:
Free trade is a game rigged so that global corporations can arbitrage over all sorts of cost factors, based on a patchwork quilt of labor and environmental laws, and nearly always choosing what makes the most money.
Shouldn’t our core principle be doing what causes the least harm?
[From /Ground: Protectionism and The Unions: Free, Fair, and Scalar Trade]
Read the rest of the post. Really. Well done, Stowe!