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Re:GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to Eas... by MichaelBurge on Friday May 06, 2016 @08:41PM (#11647763)
The United States seemed prosperous enough even in its early days. Even though it had to pay taxes and such to Britain.

I guess the best argument along those lines you could make is that the US depended on imported slaves.

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Re:GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to Eas... by colinhb on Friday May 06, 2016 @08:53PM (#11647796)
Also: took land and resources from native Americans and developed and exported them.
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