But perhaps the Green Party and other opponents are somehow opposed to what trade has done for the world. They talk about poor people. Well, let's have a bit of reality. There are fewer poor people in the world than there have ever been, and the reason for that is trade. Over the last 40 years, the evil neoliberal era, billions of people have had jobs, have had capital investment, have gained skills, have had opportunity to do what people in New Zealand would like to do: to exchange value for value, get stronger together, to have somewhere to sell the goods from their farms and their firms, to provide for their friends and their families. Billions of people have come out of poverty. 