Who Will Benefit From Afghanistan's Trillion Dollar Mineral Discovery

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No. Low wage jobs will be created, a few people will get rich, and multinational corporations will gain the most. Natural resources do almost nothing to support a strong economy and history tells us that it usually makes a country worse off. Until they embrace education and technology, nothing will change.
 
OH NO!!!!!1111

$1T mineral discovery is gonna be THE-IN thing to talk about.

armchair internet generals, assemble
 
Ultimately...noone. My dad has lived this world / this type of thing for the last 30 years...he was exploring / exploiting Uzbekistan back in 1994...think about that date for a second...that was 16 years ago just after the wall fell.

Large companies go in at huge expenses...pull the mineral ore out...ship it thousands of miles away to be processed...they lose millions if not billions in pilferage, governments extort the companies to the tune of billions...the companies pollute the local countries not through their own fault, but the fault of the third world workers they have to hire. In the end, companies eek out modest profit, but to what end?
 
So either way, the local "government" coffers will blow the fuck up and the people will see almost nothing (except shit jobs and minor infrastructure).

As far as which country has the edge going in, it's China today...as they've known about this for a few years in fact (not quite as shocking a find as originally thought, just the scope).

And this doesn't help
 
Yup. It's all fairly simple shit. Basic example ww 2 nazis captured tons of resources in russia but the infrastructure was a mess by the time it was built the Russians had taken it back. In peace time trying to acquire slave labor lol not so easy
 
i can tell you who WON'T benefit from the mineral discovery in Afghanistan: The Afghan people.
 
Not much then!

Though early reports are saying it's prohibitively difficult to get to. Could be a bullshit smokescreen to deter things for a bit but it's sort of backed up by old Soviet documents hinting at minerals back when they occupied Afghan. They never got to them for some reason, probably because of that.

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Actually, they will.

Railroad infrastructure will have to be built / upgraded. Road networks will have to be improved and jobs will be created.

Heavy machinery will be imported and will be left behind as it will be cost prohibitive to ship it back out...trickle down effects...
 
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