Russia's Economic Productivity

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[–]Blackbrownfreestuff 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

I'm no economist so help me understand. Lets say you have 2 national economies that produce only 3 goods. For country A, instagram posts, rap music, and onlyfans porn subscriptions hypothetically generate $1 trillion in revenue and country B, fertilizer, timber, and machinery generate hypothetically the same $1 trillion in revenue, how do we compare the value of these 2 economies. Are they equal?

[–]NeoRail 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

According to mainstream economic thinking, they would be equal, yes. Even in terms of actual purchasing power they would be equal - hence why the farce economies of Western countries today still permit Western governments to have massive militaries and exercise a lot of soft power. The problem is that economies using the model of country A would be completely helpless and rapidly collapse without free trade - since they produce no useful goods, they need to purchase all of these from the outside, so trade barriers would be crippling. This partly explains why Western sanctions on Russia have largely failed and have even acted to the detriment of the West - Russian imports simply play too crucial a role in economic life, and are hard to replace. A shortage of instagram posts is easily survivable, but a shortage of food and oil isn't.

[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

For country A, instagram posts, rap music, and onlyfans porn subscriptions hypothetically generate $1 trillion in revenue

What's funny is that in clown world these things are real revenue generators. People do go work hard at the piggly wigly and then go home and spend half their paycheck on apple music, only fans and Instagram simping. Obviously though clown world only exists in peace time. Nobody gives a shit about sending women $4.99 for a wink when there are roving gangs of nigger cannibals outside.

I think the silver lining here is obvious. That last act on earth most liberals will perform is feeding their pet black people. This time though instead of 'likes' or 'government handouts' it will be with their lives as blacks literally eat them.

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

nigger cannibals

I've heard this is a thing in liberia

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For country A, instagram posts, rap music, and onlyfans porn subscriptions hypothetically generate $1 trillion in revenue and country B, fertilizer, timber, and machinery generate hypothetically the same $1 trillion in revenue, how do we compare these the value of these 2 economies. Are they equal?

Consider the costs, efforts, and reach of each product.

For example, the instagram and onlyfans require internet, which uses electricity, but it can be accessed anywhere a PC or phone exists on Earth (so theoretically, billions of customers).

Fertilizer and timber are natural products but you have to pay money to actually move them across borders and then store them in appropriate facilities.

So both have their pros and cons. In a high tech world, internet services are much more profitable. But in a post-apocalyptic one, then we'll obviously need stuff that can't be powered by electricity.