[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  HealthRanger [@HealthRanger](/creator/twitter/HealthRanger) on x 320.1K followers Created: 2025-07-16 03:52:33 UTC I recently heard Jim Rickards say that comparative advantage (in the context of international economics) is not a real thing. He says that any country is just as good as making anything as any other country. Although brilliant on my topics, Rickards is wrong on this one. If his statement were true, I would be buying avocados from Canada instead of Mexico. And nobody would bother trying to do business with African nations in order to acquire rare minerals. If comparative advantage weren't real, then automobiles made in America would have the same quality and longevity as automobiles made in Japan. But they don't. Culture matters. You can move a factory to a different nation, but you can't move a work ethic or attention to detail to another nation. That's why I buy laboratory microscopes made in Japan. It's why I buy high-end rangefinder binoculars made in Germany (Leica). America can never make them nearly as well. Nor can Mexico, or Vietnam, for that matter. When you want Japanese engineering, or Swiss accuracy, or German engineering, you buy from Japan, Switzerland or Germany. Everybody seems to know that except Trump, who thinks everything can be made in America just the same. He's wrong. So is Rickards. America is good at manufacturing debt, GMOs, pesticides, entertainment films and processed junk food. But little else. Boeing can't even make airplanes that don't fall out of the sky on a regular basis. They are good, however, at making things that explode. From time to time, some of those explosions are even intentional (bombs). The culture of quality and detail is about two generations long gone in the USA, for the most part. Heavy drug addiction, processed junk foods and widespread pharmaceutical use have turned America's workforce into a festival of obese chemical junkies who have few skills, very little productivity, and an attitude of privilege that precludes them from being manageable in any environment requiring actual labor. This is why Amazon is rushing to replace every last one of them with robots, by the way. XXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [mexico](/topic/mexico) [canada](/topic/canada) [topics](/topic/topics) [Post Link](https://x.com/HealthRanger/status/1945330690712604902)
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Created: 2025-07-16 03:52:33 UTC
I recently heard Jim Rickards say that comparative advantage (in the context of international economics) is not a real thing. He says that any country is just as good as making anything as any other country. Although brilliant on my topics, Rickards is wrong on this one. If his statement were true, I would be buying avocados from Canada instead of Mexico. And nobody would bother trying to do business with African nations in order to acquire rare minerals. If comparative advantage weren't real, then automobiles made in America would have the same quality and longevity as automobiles made in Japan. But they don't. Culture matters. You can move a factory to a different nation, but you can't move a work ethic or attention to detail to another nation. That's why I buy laboratory microscopes made in Japan. It's why I buy high-end rangefinder binoculars made in Germany (Leica). America can never make them nearly as well. Nor can Mexico, or Vietnam, for that matter. When you want Japanese engineering, or Swiss accuracy, or German engineering, you buy from Japan, Switzerland or Germany. Everybody seems to know that except Trump, who thinks everything can be made in America just the same. He's wrong. So is Rickards. America is good at manufacturing debt, GMOs, pesticides, entertainment films and processed junk food. But little else. Boeing can't even make airplanes that don't fall out of the sky on a regular basis. They are good, however, at making things that explode. From time to time, some of those explosions are even intentional (bombs). The culture of quality and detail is about two generations long gone in the USA, for the most part. Heavy drug addiction, processed junk foods and widespread pharmaceutical use have turned America's workforce into a festival of obese chemical junkies who have few skills, very little productivity, and an attitude of privilege that precludes them from being manageable in any environment requiring actual labor. This is why Amazon is rushing to replace every last one of them with robots, by the way.
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