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Re:Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about g... by guelo on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:03PM (#21358686)
> 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.

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Re:Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about g... by rayiner on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:52PM (#21360758)
Doesn’t look exponentially increasing: https://images.app.goo.gl/e2Bo8NnsFvGoMCS46

https://images.app.goo.gl/Vycafp5WiuNgUy9m6

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Re:Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about g... by guelo on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:04PM (#21360830)
Ok, 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.
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