der how
you think commerce has been conducted, and economies of the world have
proceeded in the centuries before you, and the particular cleavings of the
world that you are so enamored of, appeared on the scene?

The rhetorical mode that you adopted is very unfortunate for the point
you are trying to make.  The kind of rhetoric that states one or another
of the colleagues here have "little or no idea" about something or other
is extreme and polarizing, and from my perspective meant to be
divisive.

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