Mista
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I understand your point and tbh I don't know how the calculation worked. However, you are not factoring in the direct impact of looted wealth on the economies of Anglo-America.
You say the 45trillion ignores the growth of the Western economy however those economies didn't grow in a vacuum but at least partly from a foundation of looted wealth, piracy and slavery.
It's actually a very hard calculation to make accurately but it must be very high in real terms.
The $45T figure is definitely BS.
Conquest and looting happens throughout human history. It's not sufficient to explain why India is still poor today.
Japan's population is 1/10 of India, has little natural resources, major cities got devastated in WWII, and yet they are the 3rd largest economy in the world today.
India's GDP PPP is larger than China's when the British left in 1947 despite that China's population size was 1.5x of India at that time, and India's nominal GDP per capita was ahead of China most of the time until the early 1990s. Yet, China's nominal GDP per capita is 5x of India's today.
Whose fault? The British? Do you see the Chinese blaming the Japanese for their backwardness in the last century?
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