Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Failed Economic Genius

So I was cleaning out my inbox when I happened upon this little e-mail I had sent to cute little number in an attempt to get some kisses from her.
Being the economist, I thought it wise to show you
just how important your kisses are to the global
economy, international trade and the fight against
poverty. For you see, you refusing to sell your
kisses on the international markets would be like the
following countries refusing to offer their
specialized wares/services;

Switzerland, chocolates
Japan, Cars
French, Cowardice
Idaho, Potatoes
Florida, Oranges
Hollywood, Movies
Mexico, Illegal Immigrants
Antarctica, Penguins
Taiwan, Electronics
Italy, Fashion
Chicago, Blues
Australia, Koala's
North Korea, Nuclear Arms
Iran, Terrorism
Saudi, Arabia Oil
Palestine, Suicide Bombers
London, Bad dental services
Germans, Beer
Ireland, drop dead gorgeous men, unrivalled kissing-training
services
Russia, Vodka
Chile, Wine
Iceland...uhh...Ice

This lowers standards of living by requiring other
countries to produce all the goods and services they
wish to consume, regardless of how inefficient they
are at producing it.

Thus, as you can plainly see your kisses are vital to
the economy and advancement of society. I wish it
were different, but alas one of the key revelations
you have when studying economics is that your personal
desires have no bearing on the natural forces of the
market and economics. Sorry.

Here's a link to provide you with a basic tutorial in
Ricardian trade theory.

http://internationalecon.com/v1.0/ch40/ch40.html
PURE GENIUS I SAY TO USE RICARDIAN TRADE THEORY TO PICK UP A CHICK!!!

I just can't figure out how it failed!

3 comments:

Frank said...

It failed because you limited yourself to countries/subnational entities and what they produce. you should have also added this:

Internet, pr0n.

Captain Capitalism said...

Oh yeah, THAT would have convinced her!

mike3285 said...

speaking of britain exporting bad dental services..

The other day i'm sitting around with a bunch of hippies at school and bad teeth in England came up...and they started bashing America for being the only country where people have good teeth. Something along the lines of "americans are so obsessed with having good teeth, its so messed up."

upon noticing that all four of them had perfect teeth, i got up and left. when people continuously agree each other like that it can get absurd