liberia provides some interesting data on this front. turns out, despite enormous waste, the price of living in an absolute shithole with no functioning laws or trust is roughly equal to living in europe or the us. firestone effectively operates its own country within liberia to produce rubber and despite paying slave wages their rubber is about as expensive as everyone else's rubber. liberia is a good example because the investment firestone made into liberia marks the only time in the country's 200 year history that its economy grew.
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