i’d respond to this paragraph but you really haven’t made a coherent argument past “us bad china good”

Please try your best to engage in good faith and not make things up. There’s plenty for you to ask about or engage with if you have the interest.

no, because resources are always finite. the resource doesn’t have to be “money”.

The original topic was investment, which includes money and is relevant to the balanve of payments issue, particularly with African countries with th3 aforementioned imperialized economies. You cannot understand, for example, offshoring, without understanding unequal exchange, and this makes what might seem like a finite resource problem into one where you must think about coercion and graft and where production is directed.