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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Nov 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Joe Norman

      2/ No, I understand diseconomies of scale, and I'm not arguing flatly in favor of oursourcing absolutely every aspect of our supply chain overseas. ...I'm just saying that I'd rather buy machine parts from MI or Germany than from the one guy in town.https://twitter.com/normonics/status/1326528225057628160 …

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      Joe Norman @normonics
      Libertarians almost universally fail to get diseconomies of scale https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1326528038847340544 …
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Nov 2020

      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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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Nov 2020

      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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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Nov 2020

      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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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Nov 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Axel Mangelsdorf

      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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      Axel Mangelsdorf @axelpopaxel
      Replying to @znfrey @normonics
      Good points. I have a garden and try to produce a lot of my own food. But I don't agree with the "buy local" agrument. Consumer choice won't change markets. Only policy can.
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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Nov 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Joe Norman

      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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      Joe Norman @normonics
      Replying to @_quodvultdeus @MorlockP
      and we are so far past that point libertarians live in a world of abstractions I mean just look at the half-assed "calculations" above as if those in any way reflect high dimensional reality
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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Nov 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Joe Norman

      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 …

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      Joe Norman @normonics
      Replying to @MorlockP
      here's a summary analysis https://twitter.com/normonics/status/1326537115090386945?s=20 … will have expanded arguments to come. life is more than data
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    9. Joe Norman‏ @normonics 11 Nov 2020

      also worth noting the the variety of "stuff" is related to our consumerist culture which was the premise of the original tweet quoted.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Nov 2020

      there's a real and valid criticism of consumerism. On the one hand, people like their disposable clothes and plastic toys and collectible bobble-head-crap ...but on the other, there is something lacking in virtue about all of that.

      7:17 AM - 11 Nov 2020
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