[ExI] Free Trade

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On Tue, 7 Oct 2025, John Clark via extropy-chat wrote:

> How do people around here feel about free trade? When I first joined this list in 1993 nearly every member was a passionate advocate
> of free trade including me, but I get the impression that is no longer the case; certainly He Who Must Not Be Named is about as far
> from being a free trade advocate as it's possible to be. Even the AI revolution hasn't caused me to change my opinion about free
> trade but Universal Basic Income is a different matter; back then I would've argued that the idea was completely impractical and I
> would have been correct, but even then I knew that eventually something like it would have to be implemented, however I figured it
> was so far in the future I didn't need to think very deeply about it. But the time has come. 
> 
> Have the amazing developments in AI during the last five years caused anybody else to change any of their economic opinions?
> 
> John K Clark 

Hello John,

No, certainly not me. Free trade good, UBI bad. As long as there will be 
human desires, there will be jobs.

Best regards,
Daniel