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by f69281c 1972 days ago
This creates an incentive for international corporations to keep a few banana republics around - nations constantly kept in shambles to ensure a fat profit margin by minimizing manufacturing costs.

It also eats away at the earning potential of the middle and lower classes in more advanced nations. If your nation's cost of living is high, finding a way to outsource your economic productivity is the goal of a titanic mountain of cash.

Because of this economic uncertainty, it ALSO makes some middle and a lot of lower class people in advanced nations latch onto the first nationalist they see.