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100 separate political units, each with their own version of an industry, are by their nature less economically efficient than one entity that's 100x as big. C
by ethbr1 9mo ago
100 separate political units, each with their own version of an industry, are by their nature less economically efficient than one entity that's 100x as big.
Consequently, industry in 1 of those 100 units is always going to be outcompeted, at scale, by industry in the 100x as big entity.
Given more or less global free trade, that leaves the smaller entities economically competitive at... what? Why wouldn't business inherently flow to larger entities?
- marcusverus 8mo agoLuckily we don't have to figure this out from first principles, we can just look at the data. 9/10 countries with the highest GDP per capita have populations under ~7 million, and the vast majority of the top 20 do as well. This is true both in PPP and nominal dollars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...