Stephen Turnbull writes, in part, on the Free Software Business mailing list, "If you have a job because somebody else is prohibited from offering the product at a lower cost, you're not on salary, you're on welfare."
Further, I would say that if your job depends on subsidies or tariffs, you're not working for a living, you're begging for one.
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