The TPP is a wholesome beneficial legislation, orchestrated by businesses around the world to ensure their continued profits and ownership of capital creation, such as copyright (it will be harder to share content online without paying for it and DMCA youtube takedown style action will increase.) Furthermore it allows corporations to legally prosecute governments for getting in the way of their hard-earned profits or potential profits, for example if you don't allow a gold mining corporation to mine your gold, you as a country will be sued for the value of that gold.

I can't understand why everyone has got their panties in a bunch over this; that small group of people with capital who makes and influences the laws will do what they can to make sure they keep getting the capital for the future, so that there is less transfer of wealth, which is necessary for a stable global economy.. I personally am looking forwards to when governments are abolished entirely and corporations simply write laws along side their company charters. Whichever corporation has more money, has more rights to enforce their laws.

There's literally dozens of /r/ELI5 threads on this[1] that are useful:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/23ubdy/e...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3az0fa/e...

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=eli5+tpp

As a European the one you should be concerned with is TTIP.

It is basically TTP, but involves Europe instead of East Asia and Australia.