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"International trade is bad actually because something happening on the other side of the world could cause a car shortage" ignores the benefit that a car facto

"International trade is bad actually because something happening on the other side of the world could cause a car shortage" ignores the benefit that a car factory in the US blowing up would just mean we temporarily buy more cars from elsewhere until capacity is restored. It can go both ways.

yobbo 4y ago
The point is that a car has so many bottlenecks that each are out of any single body's control.
rbanffy 4y ago
> It can go both ways. But the US importing more cars for some time wouldn’t cause it to collapse from emerging behaviours in hard to predict interdependent supply chains.