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Lazare on March 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: For the first time ever, the number of poor people...

You realize you're talking about the 20th wealthiest country in the world? And most of the countries above them are either tiny, have oil, or both?

berntb on March 26, 2012 [–]

It seems to me the GP didn't talk about the relative wealth of e.g. Britain, he was expressing a conspiracy theory that everything Britain had was stolen?

It took me a bit to realise that you did answer the GP's "point".

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