(August 8, 2011 at 8:22 pm)Shell B Wrote: Well, dur, Void.That is about all they can manage, though. What else are they going to export? There is no way that they can export minerals and fossil fuel without it become a slave industry. All they have is baskets, which is kind of my point.
More of a "slave industry" than making baskets?
Even assuming they have no great mineral or oil reserves they could operate factories, there would be good opportunities for them to import primary goods, use them to manufacture consumer goods and export them to the rest of the world, the people working would receive a wage that's by far preferable to starving and having to take aid.
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