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done is better than perfect

Seriously? This might be true for websites, but not for international legislation that potentially creates legally-binding terms that seriously disadvantage the citizens of one or more of the parties in perpetuity.

For a great example of this see the TPP, currently being negotiated in secret, which will almost certainly force my country (New Zealand) to accept the USA's terms on copyright protection and various other more important terms such as restricting access to generic drugs, raising the cost of healthcare for everyone. These terms benefit no-one except Hollywood and the pharma companies. In this case, done is considerably worse than perfect.


"Done" in this case is also considerably worse than "not done anything at all"! I do wish doing nothing was considered more often as a viable policy.


Where is the substance to your claims? The last few years has seen a constant erosion of income both in the USA and Europe.

In any case why should trade agreements cede arbitration and disputes to tribunals and panels which are not subject to public scrutiny and proper judicial and democratic oversight?


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“Economists estimate that the introduction of the fifth version of Apple’s iPhone delivered a GDP increase up to eight times higher than the projected effect of the TTIP/TAFTA.”

http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/02tafta


Yeah, the GDP may have increased due to the iPhone - but loads of the profits Apple did ended up in Apple's coffers and not back in circulation...


Trade negotiations are more likely to be free from backlash if they are at least open. The secrecy is the biggest hindrance here.


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Where has this retroactive approach worked? Maybe the W3C should try using it for defining web standards.




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