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xkcd #3290: Trade (infosec.pub)

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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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[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And you would introduce those tariffs gradually. Just start with 0.1% and increase at a regular interval over several years so everybody has time to adjust and build out local production financed by investors that know exactly what's coming down the pipeline. No, instead you get wild swings, on and off again and a complete chaos where building and investing becomes a huge risk.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's almost like he's trying to destabilize the country.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Because they let him while in the background the richest folks try to buy everything for pennies on the dollar and turn the country in a cyberpunk dystopia.