[xkcd] Trade

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"You legs may have a comparative advantage at running, but we arms have a competitive advantage at swinging hammers, so unless you accept that we're the dominant limbs and stop hogging the oxygen, that running advantage won't be around for less."

🔗 xkcd.com/3290 · #3290

Why it resonates: Sounds exactly like every microservices vs monolith debate — each component arguing it's the critical bottleneck while the whole system slowly suffocates.

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