Love = Free Trade

Scott Scheule compares love and trade policy:

Let’s imagine it in an economic sense, shall we? Let us say that putting barriers up between one’s self and others is precisely the same as raising tariffs. And let us take note of Ricardo’s basic arguments of comparative advantage. Trade barriers hurt both parties: they’re fine grains of economic balderdash. And so, if I close myself off, hide myself away from the people around me, then I not only hurt everyone else, I hurt myself. And, if I open up, we all gain.