Meh, companies did clearly got rich on exporting western technology
Capturing only a tiny fraction of the value they created, and that's just the for-proft companies, not to mention all the scientists and charitable organizations that gave out western science and technology for free.
Capturing only a tiny fraction of the value they created
I would love to see some statistics on that, but it's probably too hard to measure; also how much % of the exported technology was charity.
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