Lmao

Japan has regulations to try and maintain food independence

There's plenty of room if the let US and Australia be thier breadbasket

That already have an economy problem, importing more would only increase it, i would expect.

So it kind of makes sense, to maintain that independence.

green day isnt punk, change my mind

Green day was punk in the 90s. Stopped being punk in the GWB era.

If Japan would stop tarrifing so much I expect they'd export more. I bet it'd more than even out.

Japan already has a trade surplus. It isn't falling for the free trade scam.

Yes, Japan suffers disproportionately from an absence of free trade.

Thier cost of living is inflated and thier quality of life suffers

Thier young people suffer the most

Nothing to do with free trade.

The fact that their prices are ridiculously high has everything to do with free trade. Apples, rice, etc are all tarrifed to death so Japanese pay a lot more for their food than they should if they traded freely.

And?

'Goods prices are all that matter' is the free trade scammer's favorite misleading premise/talking point.

>goods prices have nothing to do with cost of living
🤔

Not nothing, and not everything.

literally everything by definition

Prices are just one component of cost of living. The other is income.

which is another price

Your problem is that we don't have a free market in money.

We don't have a free market in anything.

That is the most important one.

If that is granted, all else follows.

You can blame the ECB for the uprising in france more than macron.

https://mises.org/library/free-market-monetary-system

If it doesn't have "nothing to do with free trade", why would you say it did, verbatim, in a discussion about cost of living?

The social problems usually claimed about Japan are not due to trade.

That's not what was being discussed, for starters. Second it could easily be argued that high cost of living contributes to social issues

And so-called free trade contributes to social issues.

The free trade you admitted doesn't exist contributes to social issues?

That was a statement about free trade in general.

Okay, so where's the social-issue-causing free trade?

The decline of domestic production is rather obviously social-issue-causing.

misallocations of resources causes the boom bust cycle, so it seems logical to regulate markets, but credit expansions are what causes misallocations of resources, so the correct solution is the opposite of what seems intuitive.

Reading Mises is a misallocation of resources.

lol. kill yourself

Only if people refuse to adapt to the market. Further the consolidation of power in the hands of corporations (a government defined entity, need I remind you) and high cost anti competitive practices is anything but free trade

If the market isn't free then there's no reason for us to adapt to it.

Anything other than perfect competition is socialism. Reeeeeeeeeeeeee