It isn't that his point isn't true, it's just that it is tautological. It's sort of like saying cars are more useful in country X than country Y because country

It isn't that his point isn't true, it's just that it is tautological. It's sort of like saying cars are more useful in country X than country Y because country x has roads. On the one hand: yes. On the other hand: it used to be that no country had roads, so obviously this is a problem with a solution. The country has roads, because it has cars.