West Virginia’s relative poverty isn’t an effect of California’s enormous wealth. The better way to look at it is to consider how much poorer the Mountain State would be minus all the advances hatched in California, and for that matter around the world.
What matters is that people are producing, not where they’re producing. The more that “hands” and machines the world over are productive, the better the odds that American hands get to realize their enormous potential. Trade is not war, rather it’s mutual enrichment that makes war less likely.
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