International trade can benefit or harm the world’s people, depending on its nature. Genuinely fair trade, alongside sustainable haulage practices, can bring benefits for all of us. But ever-growing trade, over ever-growing distances and with the sole aim of making a profit can make life difficult for workers and is a sure-fire way of exceeding the limits of our finite planet.
for limiting the welfare state, for example public funding for social services or social security, e.g. private care before state care