The opening of this chapter made me think about something that I have never thought about in such depth before. Wheelan talks about a crazy machine that creates one thing into something else on the completely opposite end of the spectrum. As I was reading this I was thinking "wow that'd be so awesome, but knowing this book, its gonna turn around and be like.. 'OH WAIT!! This already exists!!''' and it did. I've never thought of trade in this way, I've always thought of it as "if I give someone this, they will give me something else in return." Never as an innovator that creates something from nothing.
The other part of the opening to this chapter that made me think about how privileged my life really is, is when he talks about how life would be without trade. Waking up in a shoddy house built with my uncoordinated hands, with clothes also made by my uncoordinated hands, and making my own coffee from scratch. It made me realize how essential trade is to every day life. Myself and many others do not or did not realize this and its very important that more people do.
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