Honestly? I don't think it'll work. Oh, I'm sure that some free-market advocates will think it'll work, and there's nothing in the rulebook that says that people can't try it, but I can't see it working.
Let's look at China. The PRC is not well-liked by most of their trade partners, to the point that anti-Chinese sentiment is often not just ignored but supported by the people in power. And yet, China remains a huge chunk of the world's economy. Why? Because they have a huge chunk of natural resources and an equally huge pool of poorly paid labor which allows them to undercut prices in foreign markets. So China continues to be demonized as the next big threat (after those pesky Muslims) while still being a major trade partner with the first world. The money changing hands doesn't change anybody's opinion, it just enriches the exploiters while everybody else is miserable.
The same, I think, is true for Fenspace. (Well, without the 'enriching the exploiters while everybody else is miserable' bit. Probably.) While the first world (or second or third worlds, for that matter) would happily accept another source of raw materials the opinion of Fenspace would not shift. Because as long as the materials keep flowing, and the money continues to change hands, it's not important to the "Free Market" what the hoi polloi thinks. It's not a priority or profitable in the eyes of capitalists to shape an opinion here.
Where it is a priority or profitable to shape opinion is in the eyes of politicans, reactionary or progressive. For the most part, the political arguments have been reactionary: "Look at these Fen, these Others. They come into your homes, change your children into something alien and horrible and then take them away where you'll never see them again." That's not a rational argument like a cost-benefit analysis, it's an appeal to emotion. You can't reason a person out of an argument they didn't reason themselves into.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
Let's look at China. The PRC is not well-liked by most of their trade partners, to the point that anti-Chinese sentiment is often not just ignored but supported by the people in power. And yet, China remains a huge chunk of the world's economy. Why? Because they have a huge chunk of natural resources and an equally huge pool of poorly paid labor which allows them to undercut prices in foreign markets. So China continues to be demonized as the next big threat (after those pesky Muslims) while still being a major trade partner with the first world. The money changing hands doesn't change anybody's opinion, it just enriches the exploiters while everybody else is miserable.
The same, I think, is true for Fenspace. (Well, without the 'enriching the exploiters while everybody else is miserable' bit. Probably.) While the first world (or second or third worlds, for that matter) would happily accept another source of raw materials the opinion of Fenspace would not shift. Because as long as the materials keep flowing, and the money continues to change hands, it's not important to the "Free Market" what the hoi polloi thinks. It's not a priority or profitable in the eyes of capitalists to shape an opinion here.
Where it is a priority or profitable to shape opinion is in the eyes of politicans, reactionary or progressive. For the most part, the political arguments have been reactionary: "Look at these Fen, these Others. They come into your homes, change your children into something alien and horrible and then take them away where you'll never see them again." That's not a rational argument like a cost-benefit analysis, it's an appeal to emotion. You can't reason a person out of an argument they didn't reason themselves into.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"