> Riveting is a job that produces goods that can be exported for incoming cash, elderly care isn't. Where's the distinction between "moving money around inside

> Riveting is a job that produces goods that can be exported for incoming cash, elderly care isn't. Where's the distinction between "moving money around inside your country" and "goods that can be exported for incoming cash"? If you go to mcdonalds to buy a burger instead of making it yourself, is that also "moving money around inside your country"? What about paying some carpenter to make a chair rather than making it yourself? Should we just cancel all jobs that can't plausibly produce stuff that can exported?