I think there are two concdepts and not making them name collide would be proper. If you are dictator and just a thing done asap you allocate all your best workers that can be allocated to do that and disuse people that do not have a specialization that shines above the usability baseline. If you want to produce as much as possible you migth be tempted to overwork your people to have abundance of items. But in the case that overworking everyone leads to revolt, making the people that would most get angry/suffer from work not do so can be easy source of “peace points”. Thus an unfair work allocation where skilled work is utilised more than what would be arrived with equalization of misery can be used. There is less total misery but it is concentrated on fewer individuals.
I think the original critism was that if we assume different conditions then on top of that we can have “voluntary” or “free” trade. But in order to have the conditions we need to have differentation which is often upheld violently against tendency to share and dissolve. Consider that if there were no toll toll on the river people could trade salt at lower prices. Blocking access makes both sides artificially rely on local resources. So a deal that is worse than uncontrolled river but better than complete separation makes sense to accept.
On previous post about comparative advantage there was a true distinction between a trade concept and a non-trade concept.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eLRSCC7r4KinuxqZX/comparative-advantage-and-when-to-blow-up-your-island?commentId=hDeE2vKTr7AJt4MeW
I think there are two concdepts and not making them name collide would be proper. If you are dictator and just a thing done asap you allocate all your best workers that can be allocated to do that and disuse people that do not have a specialization that shines above the usability baseline. If you want to produce as much as possible you migth be tempted to overwork your people to have abundance of items. But in the case that overworking everyone leads to revolt, making the people that would most get angry/suffer from work not do so can be easy source of “peace points”. Thus an unfair work allocation where skilled work is utilised more than what would be arrived with equalization of misery can be used. There is less total misery but it is concentrated on fewer individuals.
I think the original critism was that if we assume different conditions then on top of that we can have “voluntary” or “free” trade. But in order to have the conditions we need to have differentation which is often upheld violently against tendency to share and dissolve. Consider that if there were no toll toll on the river people could trade salt at lower prices. Blocking access makes both sides artificially rely on local resources. So a deal that is worse than uncontrolled river but better than complete separation makes sense to accept.