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Originally Posted by walkir
But isn't "export" about selling stuff to foreign countries, physically crossing the border and coming into customs checks?
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Not really, unless you choose to define the word that way. Economists and governments and suchlike tend to be more interested in whether something causes people in foreign countries to exchange their currency for yours in order to pay you for
something. Some kinds of services used to get called "invisible exports"... And SJGames could reasonably say that e23 earns foreign currency for the USA, so who cares that all they're shipping is electrons?
Mind you, they then blow that by importing the services of me and Pulver and Kromm and Hans.