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I think your second point is the most revealing: government can’t get away with externalising the costs of unemployment the way a private company can.





A country can't externalise costs at all except to other countries, and I guess Trump's government is trying to do that. Might not be so easy, though, against other governments who for all their faults have a better grip on the differences between countries and corporations.



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