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Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by cgio on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:04PM (#27626399)
This analysis overlooks the significant impact of appropriation of assets from colonists. A society with small GDP is not necessarily poor. E.g. if there's plenty of resources, available as communal, then that would change the view and sense of prosperity within these communities.
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Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by CryptoPunk on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:01PM (#27626706)
A society with a small GDP is poor. And that was reflected in statistics like extremely high infant mortality rates within indigenuous populations pre-integration.

There was some decline in quality of life in the transition from hunter-gatherer life to early agricultural life, but there is still a huge gap between the quality of life in hunter-gatherer societies, or medieval agricultural societies, and modern societies.

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Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by adolph on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:31PM (#27626555)
An example of this might be Saudi Arabia.
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Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by CryptoPunk on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:03PM (#27626715)
Saudi Arabia has a very high GDP and an even higher GNI. Government-owned assets are counted toward GDP/GNI.
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Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by adolph on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:26PM (#27626827)
> A society with small GDP is not necessarily poor. E.g. if there's plenty of resources, available as communal, then that would change the view and sense of prosperity within these communities.

SA was a society with small GDP that became wealthy through development of natural resources. Similarly Canada has a significant amount of resources. Colonial expropriation meant that these resources have not been controlled by the previous regimes.

[A] major source of income for the ruler of Hijaz was the taxes paid by pilgrims on their way to the holy cities. After the depression hit, the number of pilgrimages per year fell from 100,000 to below 40,000.[2] This hurt their economy greatly and they needed to find alternate sources of income. This caused Ibn Saud to get serious about the search for oil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_oil_industry_in...

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Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by CryptoPunk on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:33PM (#27626859)
>>SA was a society with small GDP that became wealthy through development of natural resources.

Yes that is correct, and I see your point now.

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