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If you are going to be a self-sufficient farmer, you need land. Otherwise, you need something you can trade for food. If you can't produce something that anyone wants, you are labor isn't worth much. If you labor isn't worth enough to eat, you starve.

China inflates its currency to buy dollars. Then, US consumers use those dollars to buy products from China, which requires employing lots of people.

The government could just hand out money to poor people, but that could just result in lots more corruption. They can also create useless jobs but that also has problems.



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