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Position Paper: Is global free trade has done more harm than good?

With the society we all live in right now, it is undeniable how fast we go
through changes, development, and evolution. One of the pillars of society is
business and economy. The difference on how things work now and then in
this industry has a large gap already. One policy that has been circulating all
around the globe is free trade. Free trade policy removes barriers and gives
freedom of exploration, and exchange of goods and services between nations
and countries with very little or none at all governing policies coming from
the state of which transactions take place. For a businessman or a capitalist
who lives on the privileged realms, free trade policy sounds like heaven, for it
gives them quite a good number of doors of opportunities for expansion, and
efficient production and provision of services. This free trade policy did
alleviate a lot of multinational corporations' and companies' health that
positively affects their state of origin. However, it has done more harm than
good with the entirety of the effects of this global free trade. It harms the
locals, the micro, medium, and small enterprises of a region. Free trade
policy robbed a lot of lives their shot in alleviating their societal status and
the opportunity of living a prosperous life. There's an exploitation of
resources that goes on and on as this global free trade exists. It has also
harmed the environment, and nowadays, we are suffering from the effects of
it. Climate change is one of the invincible proofs of how the policy damages
mother nature. Chaos also erupted and continuously stirs up in the
economic realm, for these nations with great power and influence runs after
each other's neck to be able to obtain the number one seat - being the global
economic leader. Without borders, may it be in the market domains or not,
one would always overlook other's rights and step on their dignity and
reputation. I strongly believe in the statement there is no such thing as free
lunch by Milton Friedman, and the same could be applied to trade.

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