Comment by grumple

Comment by grumple 3 days ago

100 years ago Lebanon didn’t have running water and still had slavery. The Middle East hasn’t been a producer of goods, even domestically, since antiquity.

clwg 3 days ago

Except for oil, the Middle East produces allot of oil and has for quite some time.

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grumple 3 days ago

I wouldn’t count it as a good produced though. It’s just a commodity pulled out of the ground and processed elsewhere (largely in the US). It requires no ingenuity or hard work, just the luck of being on top of oil fields due to geographic peculiarity.

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