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(My answer is based on what I learned from the answer and comments of user 1muflon1. This answer wouldn't be possible without their patient attempts to put some knowledge under my thick skull. Here I will pretend to be another person and address Past-Me as "You"). At first, let's start with intuition for why increased consumption implies increased PPF. ...

For this you first have to put some numbers on the problem to be able to draw PPF and consumption. Lets assume that Cheestopia can produce 1 cheese at 1 labor, and 1 wine at 2 labor and Winetopia 1 cheese at 2 labor and 1 wine at 1 labor, and both country has 100L avaiable for production, this gives you the following PPFs for both countries in autarky (the ...