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by AlecSchueler 136 days ago
> there's only more poverty

That's simply not true.

> A corrupt government is usually the reason a country doesn't prosper

You're probably ignoring the centuries of corporate rule in India that systematically removed wealth to Britain, and which left behind a traumatised and humiliated population that was allowed to play in a game of capitalism they didn't start with the cards already stacked against them.