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Because unskilled work and a gigantic natural resource base was the basis for wealth of the 19th century but that doesn’t hold up anymore?


If "unskilled work and a gigantic natural resource bas was the basis for wealth [in] the 19th century" then China and India would have been the U.S. 200 years ago.


Neither countries had the availability of natural resources and pristine land the the US had.




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