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You cannot forget about the money drained from the undeveloped world during colonialism and the subsequent effect which continued during cold war.



Money is made up and doesn't matter. This applies even to gold during colonialism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_revolution


The undeveloped world doesn't have, and never had, enough money to be "drained" into a pool as large as the current US economy




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