Why Isn't This a Winning Strategy?

Historical examples of the process that we're going to talk about today and they, they happen. So like Spain, um, removes a huge amount of silver and, and gold from the new world brings it back to Europe and ships a little over to China. This in the short term is great for Spain. It creates an empire that has absolute global dominance. But in the long term, this really wasn't, isn't really a winning strategy.