Just a daily reminder that prosperity increases when you deregulate and encourage proper risk-taking as well as specialization/trade.
tariffs are a useful tool which, like any tool, can be overused or misused, with disastrous consequences
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They can definitely be used to achieve an end short-term, but long-term they will tend towards harmful.
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right--they must be used tactically for specific purposes and curtailed when those purposes are accomplished
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And the thing is, when have you known any ref/tax/tarring to be taken away? Hah.
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ikr humans really suck at this
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physics -> chemistry -> biology -> economy tbh we're having a hard time making it work but it's an organic system
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...which is to say the dead ends will die and the living branches will flourish and life will go on
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I say this to everyone but forreal you should read Jane Jacobs on economics
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Thanks for the recommendation, have not read any of her stuff yet. I agree - one way or another, markets will win.
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