Reverting to the world of 110 years ago in what way resembles today?
This sound like you are deeply misplacing your confidence in your personal understanding of the world.
Not only he is overconfident about his "history knowledge" but is extremely wrong. Comparing that GDP from 110 years ago with today is liking comparing the economics of indigenous tribes with their colonization people.
It's not like comparing apples with oranges, it's literally comparing a bacteria with country.
