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It doesn't work as well on a galactic level because planets tend to be self sufficient on the millions to billions of years scale. But Star Wars always treated the scale as rather small, so it's not a really good critique anyway.
To be honest, without going too deep into SW lore, it is entirely reasonable for a given planet to have to import certain goods from elsewhere. Life did not originate on most of the SW planets - they were colonized (at least when humans are concerned). Now, in today’s globalized world trade sanctions can be a debilitating tool, so it’s reasonable to assume that in the SW galaxy the specialization has gone far enough that no single planet can sustain its needs when isolated.
The problem with Naboo specifically was food and exports - it did not grow enough food from what I can remember, and its valuable exports were halted by the Trade Federation. So, in my opinion, it sort of makes sense, especially if we compare it to cough fresher SW writing
Beside the specific excuse given for Naboo, there's more to trade than basic life sustainability - there's still material coming in and out for all sorts of technologies. Andor recently had an entire planet get strip-mined for its core made of a crystal that was super rare everywhere else, for one. Naboo can easily need some material for hyperspace travel or whatever that doesn't exist on site, or not in sufficient quantity.
It's easily observed in History right here too, where most Bronze Age cultures in the Mediterrannean collapsed when trade routes for tin and copper got burned down. People survived, but civilization and writing went into a Dark Age there. And populations tanked too by half or something, so life does get impacted.