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by crusso 3137 days ago
"but any boosterism should be tempered"

You say that as though boosterism has a negative effect on the non-mobile-elite of Columbia when I would think that any economic activity would be a boost for the whole economy there.

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>You say that as though boosterism has a negative effect on the non-mobile-elite of Columbia when I would think that any economic activity would be a boost for the whole economy there.

This is not always the case, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics