Fuck Free Tradeeeeee

whats it say

Competitive advantage works up to a point but it doesn't scale to infinity like some people would like you to think

It doesn't work at all really

tl;dr wrong because full employment assumption, industry stripping, etc

@slavecaste What is the concept of "free trade" exactly?

The fact that we can trade globally without any tariffs and it'd be all good

So what is the problem with it?

Yes it does

In principle it works, specialisation and labour division increases efficiency

If there was no cost to transport or sell/buy goods (ie no tax, costs to enter market ect.) Then it would be fine

The reason it doesn't work is because of geopolitical concerns and unfactored costs

You can have that without free trade

There are way more reasons that it won't work that aren't even that

Because it doesn't work how theorized (wages fall, industries disappear, unemployment rises, etc)

Competitive advantage had nothing to do with free trade, I do not agree with the author combining the two. Unemployment may rise in the short term but will fall in the long term

And industries dissapering is not it "not working"

You would expect industries to dissaper

It only falls due to government stimulus, not free trade

That is not how it is theorized.

Yes it did? What? LOL

Inefficient industries wither away leaving only what is nessicary

Its an argument in favour of free trade but the concept is still sound without free trade

But the industries that do wither away are efficient, not inefficient.

No. Take coal in the UK for example

Yes.

Shit you're right

The concept is retarded even without free trade and to use it as a defense for free trade is shitbrain.

I disagree with Thatcher's methods but the coal mines were inefficient and the workers were holding the government hostage

That's good

No

Yea

Its good for coal mine workers

Its not good for the country as a whole

Ya

And?

Well the industry had become bloated and inefficient and could not survive without the government propping it up

We aren't talking about Britain first of all

We are talking about America

The concept of competitive advantage is a truism

Socialist countries practiced it

Fudal lords practiced it

I do not believe in free trade

Second of all once the government props up those industries again (either through nationalizing or bailing out) it doesn't become any more inefficient.

No it isn't

A government proping up an industry means it's inefficient

It assumes perfect competition

A government running an industry ≠ government proping up an industry

I believe that it isn't good but I don't think if the government props up a industry means it is any more inefficient.

They can prop it up through means of nationalizing

No they didn't LOL

'Ah yes, socialist countries had competition.'

The Soviet Union had special zones for specific production

And traded internally

They didn't have comparative advantage tho

Competitive advantage is a concept not a policy

Yeah and that concept doesn't apply to Socialism

Its like Darwinism, either you acknowledge it or you are wrong

'Darwinism is right'

Lol

Neo-Darwinian Tard here

I'm not here to argue the evolution vs the creation though

You aren't a creationist are you

I'm neither

Like an unironic "the earth is 6000 years old"

How is Darwinism right

Darwinism is correct because things that perpetuate themselves carry on and things that don't do not carry on

Natural Selection is false as well

Lamarckist in 2021

Darwin might have been wrong about some specifics but his general principles, which were known for millennium prior before Darwin gave explicit form to the implicit knowledge of the ages.

Why

Because he did

What do you mean why?

KKKope

My mood rn

Why is it right knowledge

Because Darwinism is not an ideology it is simply a material truth

Why is it truth

That which can perpetuate itself into the future will survive and that which cannot will perish

Ideas, civilisations, species. Whatever

but this is demonstrably false with our modern ages

How?

America

What about America?

trannies, fags, blacks are all at the top while whites are sinking and we know that those people can not perpetuate themselves into the future but are still not perished.

They will perish

Whites have obviously fucked up

yes but we are the only ones capable at perpetuating into the future in America

and they still aren't being weeded out as predicted by Darwin

They can perpetuate themselves via memetics

And they will eventually destroy themselves

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_elk

Their horns grew too big because females selected the biggest hornes

Then the environment changed such that they couldn't eat enough to sustain the big hornes and the species died out

That's like America. They won't go extinct in one generation but they will destroy themselves

As Nietzsche pointed out genetics is only one way in which people perpetuate themselves

Memes (in their strictest sense) also perpetuate people (via their ideas) into the future

Ie transgenderism reproduces by memetic mind viruses

no they dont