Liberty Alone

Here’s an excellent NYT article.

Why should you expect any compensation from the loss of a job due to free trade when you’ve benefited so much more from it in total?

(Of course, this does not negate any idea of helping those made unemployed at all, just no special benefits for those whose job loss is due to trade).

Don Boudreux at the excellent Cafe Hayek has also written a letter defending this position in which he makes the excellent point:

For any worker to complain that he is victimized by trade would be akin, say, to Elvis Presley complaining that he was victimized by radio because that medium did so much to make the Beatles more popular than him.

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