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[bpodgursky]

The world is richer because people took the potato and learned how to grow it all over the world.

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Oh for sure. But that still leaves the peoples who gave the world the crop (after centuries of selective breeding), living in poverty.

Meanwhile, if one of them tries to sell a Mickey Mouse t-shirt they'd get hanged before noon by the US govt doing the bidding of a US megacorp.