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> the truth is, on balance free trade is better for the world Only because economists' only metric is GDP with the baked-in assumption that exponentially incre
by guelo 7y ago
> the truth is, on balance free trade is better for the world
Only because economists' only metric is GDP with the baked-in assumption that exponentially increasing natural resource usage is a good thing.
- rayiner 7y agoDoesn’t look exponentially increasing: https://images.app.goo.gl/e2Bo8NnsFvGoMCS46 https://images.app.goo.gl/e2Bo8NnsFvGoMCS46 https://images.app.goo.gl/Vycafp5WiuNgUy9m6 https://images.app.goo.gl/Vycafp5WiuNgUy9m6
- guelo 7y agoOk, if I could trust that those images are accurate then I am wrong. But if they are accurate you could read that graph as a population has just hit some kind of resource limit.