If I was a billionaire in a family with a long line of billionaires, it might make sense to me to back intellectuals, authors, researchers, etc., who would make the case for unrestricted free trade.
Of course, it would make sense to not publicize the fact that I’m backing them.
Just quietly give grants to universities, etc., and make known to those in charge the general direction I’d like to see in their writings. University of Chicago was founded by the Rockefeller empire.
If I had real audacity, I’d actually also do the same for support of socialism and communism, since that would enable me to lock up entire nations as captive markets for my factories, financing, building projects, etc. No competition allowed, by order of the “communist” government.
Then, the two sides, “free trade” and “communism” could fight out continually, neither ever completely winning.
The fight would distract everyone from the fact that I’m behind both sides, just subtley, quietly influencing just the leadership of both sides.
I’d be an “evil rich guy” that seems to just never go away, and has whole governments in my pocket.
“Free Trade” is nothing but welfare for unproductive Communist regimes.
They’ll never fight because they are just branches of the same immoral ideology.
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