{"id":2641,"date":"2003-01-27T17:23:53","date_gmt":"2003-01-27T11:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/27\/free-trade-and-nutcases\/"},"modified":"2003-01-27T17:23:53","modified_gmt":"2003-01-27T11:53:53","slug":"free-trade-and-nutcases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/free-trade-and-nutcases\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Trade and Nutcases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We Evil Capitalists (ECs) believe that we have a way of achieving world peace. Just get the whole world to trade with one another.  If the countries of the world are interdependent, then no one will have an incentive to fight each other, for the obvious reason that bombing your customers or vendors is bad for your bottomline. <\/p>\n<p>So we ECs sometimes dream about getting Natural Gas to India from Iran through Pakistan. Pakistan gets rent for our using its area and we get gas. Both countries will live happily ever after.<\/p>\n<p>But then <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/cms.dll\/html\/comp\/articleshow?artid=35656895\" title=\"tribals blow up pipeline\">this<\/a> happens and we wake up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Evil Capitalists (ECs) believe that we have a way of achieving world peace. Just get the whole world to trade with one another. If the countries of the world are interdependent, then no one will have an incentive to fight each other, for the obvious reason that bombing your customers or vendors is bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}