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Historically (19thC) they created new manufacturing as there was opportunity, a underdeveloped financial market and very limited "globalization" mostly focussed on developing export markets in exchange for prime ressources. Since globalization and a bonfire of national controls over capital flows has developed a "market" for "legal" tax avoidance schemes that has freed the elite from the "obligation" to share their wealth with the people that (at least) co-produced it.

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Oh. Damn.

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