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>Rising a country out of poverty is close to zero sum

This is obviously false. When a poor country becomes developed, the net productive capacity of humanity increases.

In a completely undeveloped ecoonomy, there is no money to be made domestically. It is all coming from producing for advanced economies. One of the biggest fallacies in current times is that of a growing pie. People in the United States are starting to catch on as the middle class vanishes.

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