What the four letters mean
| P Ownership | privatenot collective (C) |
|---|---|
| L Control | decentralizednot centralized (A) |
| I Horizon | internationalistnot national (N) |
| G Method | gradualnot rupture (R) |
Where this has shown up
HistoricallyRichard Cobden, who campaigned to scrap Britain’s tariffs on imported grain; open-borders libertarians today.
All sixteen
Columns: collective → private. Within each half, internationalist then national.
Rows: centralized → decentralized. Within each half, rupture then gradual.
This page is not a diagnosis
The Free Trader is a box, and a box throws almost everything away. It keeps which side of each line you landed on and forgets how far. Two people in this box can be at opposite ends of it, and somebody two points the other side of a line has more in common with this type than with their own. The four axes are real. Where the lines were drawn across them is a decision a person made.
The point
Cutline tells you the margin it used to hand you each of your four letters — including when one of them was a coin toss. That is the part every other quiz leaves out. And you are fourteen. You are supposed to change.