If everyone does what makes the most sense for them to do, and this arrangement makes Person A very fulfilled and happy but it makes Person B constantly bored and miserable, Person B will eventually lose their shit It's human nature
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The thing being that even if you accept this scenario as realistic, it doesn't feel all that utopian for someone actually in that situation Hence, you know, the ending of Bioshock
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The idea that "there will always be a job miserable enough to employ you" is not much comfort even before you account for the ways automation defeats even this.
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It really is just nice and good from an instantaneous frame of reference. (And it even almost seems to imply a trend towards reciprocal trade of *all* surplus production.) But, of course, irl with economic power comes the power to enforce future outcomes.
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Comparative advantage can tell you that you'll be happier (less miserable) if you cooperate now but it doesn't care that you could have been much better off if your trade "partner" hadn't maliciously shaped everything about the current circumstances.
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