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Re:The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets... by tonyedgecombe on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:38AM (#23244288)
The obvious solution to that is to import labour intensive goods.
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Re:The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets... by enriquto on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:06PM (#23248514)
> The obvious solution to that is to import labour intensive goods.

This is known as colonialism. It comes with a set of extremely ugly incentives. For example, keeping the population of the source country as poor as possible, at all costs, so that they accept to work for you for even less money.

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