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"You legs may have a comparative advantage at running, but we arms have a competitive advantage at swinging hammers, so unless you accept that we're the dominant limbs and stop hogging the oxygen, that running advantage won't be around for long."
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3290/
It’s even worse than that. When we complain about a trade deficit with Vietnam or whoever, what we mean is: they send us goods, like t shirts and shoes and electronics, and in exchange we increment a number in a database somewhere. A trade deficit means a goods surplus — we actually have physical things that we can use, and we’re complaining about it?