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[boddhisatva <kbevans@xxxxxxxxx>]

                Comrade Gina,



        Capital, by any standard, is the ability to provide for the people
who do the work, before their work creates economic benefit.  Peru has (or
had) enormous copper deposits.  Building the facilities to turn that copper
into extruded wire and cable, and electrical components takes years.  How
would Peru take care of the large numbers of people necessary to build these
facilities?  Then, since you have to sell them in a competitive market, how
will you provide for the people who want to realize their ideas for different
products, requiring new facilities that may, or may not create compensating
economic benefit?



        You can't build circuit boards with hand tools and dynamite.


        You can't simply compel people to work by force.


        You can't follow the pacific rim capitalist model.


        How can the third world enter the modern economy?




        peace,



                boddhisatva





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