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A large corporation can spend $100 million in one of two ways: (A) building a new, more efficient factory that lowers its production costs, or (B) lobbying the government to create a new regulation that makes it much more expensive for smaller competitors to operate. From the perspective of the overall economy's total wealth, explain the fundamental difference between the outcomes of these two investments.
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