Whatever, man. Personal autarky is as inefficient an endeavour as the type practised by nations. Each man is as subject to the law of comparative advantage as a

Whatever, man. Personal autarky is as inefficient an endeavour as the type practised by nations. Each man is as subject to the law of comparative advantage as a nation is. This disparagement of 'mom-tech' is the nth iteration of the same anti-trade nonsense that people have tried to peddle since before we had economists we called economists. My time is worth more to me than the other guy's time is to him. Stopping me from paying him is going to make both of us worse off.