Yes. And there was a little something called the crisis of the third century of the roman empire when essentially they ran out of gold and silver to pay for things because everything they were buying came from the east. From China and India. For thousands of years these people have been selling any fucking thing they can cultivate and sell it all to the west. That's why they have temples roofed with gold and such. The climate change people say, China and India are developing countries when in fact it is America that has developed from only the last 200 years while they have been trade super powers for thousands of years.
Brilliant