• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    Sovereignty is incompatible with free flow of capital (a major part of free trade).

    You allow foreign capital to come in and buy as much of whatever it wants, then someone outside your borders controls what that part of your economy produces, how it produces it and where the profits go. Given that capital gives political power, that means the more this happens, the more control people who don’t vote in your country have over your own government.