Destroying your own productive capacities is just enslaving yourself to those of others

Look at how easily you can destroy global production chains by just taking china out of the equation

It doesn't matter if you can buy cars now from some foreign company at a cheaper rate if your countries' potential productive capacity isn't made use of

HOW DOES HAVING MORE GOODS AND SERVICES AT A LOWER PRICE MAKE YOU LESS PRODUCTIVE?

Because it prevents the development of industries in your own country

You're not producing more just consuming more at a cheaper rate

Which makes barriers to entry for developing industry in your own country higher

If I live in country X and we lose all of our jobs in the iron industry from foreign competition, all the goods in our country that are made with steel will see lower costs

thats an increase in productive capacity

Net productive capacity increases

I don't disagree that importing iron is good

Because it makes manufacturing more competitive

It doesn't make economic sense to be autarchic in that

You're starting to make sense

However usually this looks more like this
Your country is stuck with an economy primarily about the primary sector
You trade away what little capital you earn thorough it for cheaper foreign manufactured products. Industry deosn't develop unless foreign capital decides to invest or your country decides to institute some tariffs and kickstart industry

Why do you want industry?

That industry keeps more capital in your own country which allows for the development of others etc.

Wealthy nations are industrial. Nations stuck with a primary sector economy but a dense poulation are pretty miserable

Most primary sector economies are stuck with subsistence farming and whatnot

"That industry keeps more capital in your own country which allows for the development of others etc."

What

Instead of your capital moving overseas it can be directed into growing your domestic industry basically

Wait

what

but by moving the capital abroad

you get more goods?

In that moment yeah

But not in the long run

Yeah I'm outta this server

This is why the right wing sucks right now

Because this one dude disagrees with you?

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Imagine being against industry

Return to tradition and ban secondary/tertiary

Why yes I want cheap shit now and trust capitalists in China to reinvest the money I spent on their shit into my own society

That'll make my society richer in the long term

This is why I can't take lolberts seriously

>This is why the right wing sucks right now
Because it's not Jewish enough?

kike

What a passive aggressive bitch, was that guy.

@Mr. Nessel I think the right wing position, in a true sense in economics, is to deconstruct the public/private distinction