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You shouldn’t have a problem once new players enter and want a share of that pie. Afterall its all good.

• jollybean 5y ago
  This is a misunderstanding. The 'new players' can only emerge with baseline security and they do not 'take' a 'piece of the pie' - they make it for themselves. Europe is not rich because it has 'natural resources' - it's rich because it has stability and it's organized: NATO/US Nuclear Umbrella + social and moral order, and institutions from liberal democracies, to education, to industry etc.. Poor nations are mostly that way because they are completely corrupt and have a hard time building standards, institutions and regular order - and / or - they can't have those because they have security problems, often which go hand in hand. Without that, money and equipment invested is squandered. Korea and Japan made very efficient use of post-war re-investment, because they knew what to do with the electricity grid, and how to put it to good use, and to maintain it. Rwanda - not so much. The only people trying to challenge the Post WW2 order are 1) toxic and corrupt states and 2) naive people among the proles, on reddit. There is definitely a 3rd grouping, with some degree of legitimacy, but they are more rare. The biggest group among them would be isolationist types. But usually they are not in good faith, usually they are just in group #1.