ehhhh .... trade creates gains, and comparative advantage suggests that your neighbors are unlikely to have comparative advantage in 99% of the things that you buy, so buying locally doesn't enrich your neighbors OR you ; it just makes everyone poorerhttps://twitter.com/normonics/status/1326527560386285568 …
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3/ There are declining marginal improvements in cost as you increase the area you purchase from (adding a whole second Earth might decrease cost of wrenches by 3%), but the low hanging fruit is AMAZING. Buying wrenches from MI vs from in state is prob a 70% cost drop. >>>
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4/ Hiring the best relevant software engineer in the US vs the best one in a 30 minute drive is probably a 5x quality improvement. Etc. So restricting even 80% of purchases to w/i 100 or 500 miles would decrease quality of life for people by like 50%.
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5/ If you want to help the common man, you don't do it by keeping his salary flat and doubling the cost of every single thing he wants to buy. That's Wrath-of-Gnon style retardation.
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6/ Same. I raise my own meat. ...but God help people if everyone had to do that, or buy meat raised within 50 or 100 miles.https://twitter.com/axelpopaxel/status/1326534687708250114 …
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7/ I don't claim them as "calculations", but as suggestive numbers. I continue to suggest that they are approximately correct. Economists have fairly well proven that prosperity correlates with size of a trade area, no? Happy to read dissenting datahttps://twitter.com/normonics/status/1326536352209330177 …
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8/ also - and I think that
@normonics gets this - he and I broadly agree that (a) trade is generally good, (b) in the extreme limit, it can cause dislocations, unemployment, and societal problems. We're quibbling about the location of the margin.https://twitter.com/normonics/status/1326537635251200000 …Show this thread
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Michigan I am ok with, fuck Germany. My preference would be to always prioritize national security where we don't depend on any one else if we don't have to. Threshold where I would go to someone is much higher. I get that libertarians have a problem with we part. 1/2
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How about, things should be purchased locally if you need to buy it more than once a year.
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