How come the most self sufficient countries are absolute shitholes to live in?

I thought Japan produced everything themselves

>>511198074 (OP)
necessity

>>511198074 (OP)
natural resources dont have great added value but it decrease the living cost, 100 koreans may produce more than 1000 argentinians but their living expenses are way higher too

>>511198183
I seem to remember Japan having absolute shit soil for farming anything other than heavily irrigated rice

>>511198074 (OP)
Shitholes countries havent industralized yet so agriculture is their main source of income

>>511198591
hard to compete against asian manufacture, better to specialize in somethning that you have a natural advantage and then buy finished goods cheaper from asia than what it would cost to produce it locally

>>511198431
this anon gets it. Argentines have a good grasp of economics...for obvious reasons

>>511198748
Yes but these shithole countries are ran by corrupt retards that only cares about getting bribes

I should go fishing more

>>511198748
Hard to compete against asian slave labor, you mean. That's why you put a tariff on imports to artificially increase the cost of the slave labor so your labor can compete. I don't want inferior asian plastic crap.

>>511198074 (OP)
What a gay metric.

>>511199054
>against asian slave labor
sweatshop workers aren't slaves
they choose to work there because the only alternative is subsistence farming