This is another example of how the actual population is the one deciding the fate of a country
- you can have billions in resources, but that's not like those were given to you or you earned them somehow, it's just that in the lottery of life, you were born there and not on a completely different continent, so one shouldn't feel entitled just by that
- you can have almost no resources but ingenuity born out of shortages will help you way more than just having your meal dropping on your head every day, see how Japan industrialized itself
Besides, since the discussions start with we have resources, we need to be wealthy, It is clear how this will go long term even if those resources will be exploited, a classic example of Dutch disease where everyone would simply depend on the price of minerals on the markets.
Wishes have no place here, as they stand against the economic launches of companies that make commercial profits from those cheap raw resources. Even if governments decide that, some countries will prevent them, as is happening in some African countries, as they cannot create their own currency and all of their local currencies are printed in France.
And the ability to print money has been always a double-edged sword, look at what this did to the Zimbabwe dollar, the Sudanese pound, the Naira, and the SAR rand, almost all of the currencies have lost 80% vs the dollar, while the CAF, it was 0.0019 in 2003 it's 0.0017 now 20 years later.