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Local purchasing, a Common card
Local purchasing is a preference to buy locally produced goods and services rather than those produced farther away.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 29
- Power
- 84
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 3,200
Power 84 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is very often abbreviated as a positive goal, "buy local" or "buy locally', that parallels the phrase "think globally, act locally", common in green politics.
- On the national level, the equivalent of local purchasing is import substitution, the deliberate industrial policy or agricultural policy of replacing goods or services produced on the far side of a national border with those produced on the near side, i.e., in the same country or trade bloc.
- Before industrialization and globalization became widespread, there were so many incentives to buy locally that no one had to make any kind of point to do so, but with current market conditions, it is often cheaper to buy distantly-produced goods, despite any added costs in terms of packaging, transport, inspection, wholesale/retail facilities, etc.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Local purchasing article was read about 3,200 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 29: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Local purchasing (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Virginia State Parks staff, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
