Scotland in Fairtrade nation bid

[doodab]

What a coward you are hiding behind a literal explanation in a dictionary. You can do better than that by applying it to the concept of "fair trade"

You asked me to define the concept of fair. A dictionary seemed like a good place to start. Hardly cowardice.

Personally, I believe that humans have evolved an innate idea of what is fair and unfair which they apply to most of their actions and when judging the actions of others. Various research in behavioural economics and evolutionary psychology backs this up, and it seems that people's idea of fair leads to a pretty good heuristic approximation to optimal strategy for a lot of simple economic "games".

It's clear from your posts that you yourself have a strong idea of what is fair or unfair and a fairly strong desire to see the world operate in ways you consider fair. Why don't you use that as a starting point?

As regards my personal definition of fair, it's rather strictly mathematical. A fair game is one in which all players have equal chances of winning. An unfair game is one which is biased in favour of one or more of the players. This is pretty much the same as sense 1 in the dictionary entry above.

[xoggoth]

If it is tied to real production and they have to sustain and grow real industries to get it, it probably makes more sense than foreign aid which is as destructive to incentive as welfare is over here. The devil is all in the detail of course which I can't be *rsed to research, although if consumers here have a choice over whether to buy fair trade produce or not it's up to them.

[d000hg]

Who defines what is fair and what is unfair?

Why don't you read their website?

Whether it is 'fair' could be a valid debate, but whether it is fairER is not... paying people enough they aren't slogging their guts just to stay near the poverty line to provide us KitKats.

[xoggoth]

I'm all for bringing back slavery personally. Darn leftist idealism!