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Re:What Happened with West Virginia’s Blockchain Voting Expe... by Ericson2314 on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:00PM (#20557415)
> raw and manufactured

We were immensly helped by the world wars wiping out so much capital abroad. Even before that, the civil war while costing much life only jump-started our industrial capacity as the fighting was never that far north.

The resource curse is basically a mercantilist problem where the resources extracted are almost entirely exported, and little domestic industry outside of resource extraction.

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