And you apparently think that Musk and Bezos have that money sitting in a piggy bank somewhere, not entirely reinvested into hiring people to try and create more stuff 
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mostly true. USSR could never have become the largest economy in the world, but could have increased its GDP/capita by 50% or so with better policies.
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No. It doesn’t. Cuz it’s an arid cold climate. It has oil. Not all of our natural resources and farm land. Our climates in this country are crazily diverse.
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Further, this was a quick google search. He did a lot more research than me: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-reason-that-Russia-is-and-has-always-been-so-poor-despite-having-the-biggest-amounts-of-natural-resources-in-the-world-being-twice-the-size-of-the-USA-and-having-2-5-times-less-population-What-makes-this-country-so-miserable … Technically they may larger quantities of natural resources in Russia, but when looking at usable land Russia sucks. America hit the jackpot with location.
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