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xkcd #3290: Trade

Title text:

"You legs may have a comparative advantage at running, but we arms have a competitive advantage at swinging hammers, so unless you accept that we're the dominant limbs and stop hogging the oxygen, that running advantage won't be around for long."

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3290/

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[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember some quip about how his professor said that he was the dumbest student that he had ever had.

[–] Tower@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

“I remember the inflection of his voice when he said it: ‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!’”

- Marketing professor William T. Kelley (according to attorney Frank DiPrima, who was close friends with Kelley for 47 years)