Unemployment will make society worse off

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"If we allow free trade in the automobile industry, some automobile workers will lose their jobs. This unemployment will make society worse off." What advantage of free trade does this argument overlook? How might the unemployment be alleviated at lower cost than the cost imposed by a tariff?

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