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This is a tremendous non sequitur. Being a world power and the level of poverty within a country have little to do with each other.
by pbourke 6y ago
This is a tremendous non sequitur. Being a world power and the level of poverty within a country have little to do with each other.
- wyre 6y agoCan you give me an example? The only world power I can think of with high levels of poverty is the US, but I live here so I don’t have experience in other world power countries.
- acta_non_verba 6y agoIndia and China are both super powers with large populations of extremely impoverished people.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoThe USSR could produce enough nuclear weapons to keep pace with the US, but they couldn't produce toothpaste for their people. When that sank in for Gorbachev, he decided that something was fundamentally broken with the USSR economy.