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Of course it could. We just need to expel the jews first....

Thanks to you and your kind, there is no modern example, IF YOU CONSIDER MODERN TECHNOLOGY ESSENTIAL TO HAVING “PARADISE” The Amish are luddites.  There are thousands of backward communities all over the world that do organic farming and refuse modern technology, and they are happy.  The unabomber ...

or..idiot...he's describing the us 60 years ago...

We moved from a manufacturing economy to a service economy.  I grew up in Flint Michigan.  I saw the decline of the auto plants in Flint and Detroit, thanks to the import of Japanese cars.  I saw the town I grew up in go from a vibrant community to a ghetto filled with unemployed bums and watched th...

They would not have to, I was just making a point. Every modern luxury could be made in the U.S. without any foreign products.  That is why I like Trump’s protectionist trade policies....

Amish don’t need your foreign made Chinese crap.  They don’t drive cars, they chop wood and build barns and literally do chores all day.  And within their communities there little to none of the things that plague the rest of us.. crime, abortions, drug abuse, overdose, obesity, ADHD, debilitating d...

Amish have 0 trade with multinationals.  No McDonalds, no shopping at Walmart, no smartphone, no laptop .. ZERO 2 questions.. 1.  Are the Amish North Korean? 2.  How would it affect the Amish if the border was closed? that is just one example… there are hundreds of self sustaining, simple farmi...

No, it was only possible pre industrial revolution.  See, life was actually EASIER before the invention of refrigerators, laundry machines, steam engines, the discovery of penicillin, etc… now that we have modern luxuries, we couldn’t POSSIBLY SURVIVE as humans did in primitive isolation for centur...

https://www.butterfield.com/get-inspire ... n-of-japan While Sakoku, Japan’s long period of isolation from 1639 to 1853, kept it closed off from much of the world, one upshot was the rise of cultural touchstones that persist to this day. (Though admittedly, this knowledge would likely have done litt...

if that is true, then how did Japan thrive as a nation completely isolated from ALL international trade for centuries, idiot?...