slave labor doesn't really do mining well, that's how mining was done in most of the world for almost forever, but now we mine more than all of past production combined in just a couple decades. mining is all about scale, go in, move a lot of ground, extract, get out. slave labor can provide the labor cheap, but scale-wise? an actual real company that's efficient at its job is 100 times better than just having cheap labor.   yup. usa gdp 27 trillion per year, bragging about finding a peanut. mining doesn't really make a country rich, it can aid them in not being poor anymore if it's spent right but it won't be because it's never spent right.
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