New Imigration Reform

[Jester]

You are forgetting that goods may still flow in and out. A net gain of money in the closed economy could mean that the money will be hoarded, and hence devalued... Or spent on purchasing more goods, bringing in more wealth into the community.

As opposed to that net surplus of money leaving that community, and getting spent by other people on purchasing goods for themselves, I'm not quite sure there's only a 'seeming'.

If goods come in, money goes out to pay for them. If money comes in, goods go out in exchange. There's no way to simultaneously keep cash circulating within a community and yet also spend it on stuff from outside that community.

There is no way to magically generate a surplus of both cash and goods. One needs high productivity or smart investments. But a community with those is not a community that wants to remain insular.

-Jester