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Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. And you cannot export a haircut. But we are coming close to exporting a haircut, the appointment part. What kind of haircut do you want? Which barber do you want? All those things can and will be done by a call center far away.
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― The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
― The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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People believe that what a man needs is work. This, of course, is absurd. What he needs is the goods produced by work, and the less work involved in making a given amount of goods, the better.
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― Political Ideals
― Political Ideals
