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South American (Venezuelan) here. This is not true. Blaming US foreign policy for all or even most of South America's failures is silly and a common tactic of demagogues, with no basis in reality, to deflect from bad domestic policy.

Admittedly, I did not fully understand the point the GP was trying to make with the Spain comparison.

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We may argue why South America has lower life quality than Spain, but the fact that it has.

This will be the case with space colonies too, I'm afraid. While it will be debatable why colonies perform worse than Earth, it will be apparent that the best course was to stay.

So you're going to ignore the United States, Hong Kong, Australia, etc?

They're very special cases, and still, I'm not sure that Australia (and even US) fares much better than e.g. source England and Norway.

> I'm not sure that Australia (and even US) fares much better than e.g. source England and Norway.

I don't know many fellow Americans that are of Norwegian descent but the US fairs better than the UK on lists of human development, happiness, and productivity. That has to mean something.

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