That’s not true!
Some of them got rich from war profiteering - not stealing from poor people, but stealing from vulnerable people until they get poor.
Unpopular opinion: it’s more of a coping mechanism for the third world countries.
Sure UK and much of Europe had big and terrible colonies but there were still many like sweden and norway which did not. Thus the assertion that developed countries all have built upon exploitation is not entirely true
Assertion 2: countries such as china have shown that economic development is possible when you have a terrible history of war, destruction or otherwise poor economic background. Sure personal freedom is a joke in China but to say it isn’t an economic giant is false. Poland after ww2 is another example, much of their intellects were killed and warsaw was everything but ruins at the end of 1945
Assertion 3: geography, the age groups of the people and culture all affect the development of a nation much more than their history from 80 years ago.
- from someone who has keen interest in history and lives in a third world country and seen corruption, bribery and every form of idiotic economic decision that a government can make to not let the country be a better place.
Why don’t the poor people just get rich? Are they stupid?
Lolol just ignore those pesky stats and raising people out of poverty over the last 75 years.
Raising people in their own country
My country has a high standard of living, because even poor people can buy nice things because they are made by slave labor in very poor countries.
So we went from being material poor and joy rich to just materially rich…
Communists hate this one
It’s why homo saipans are the dominant species. They formed groups and enslaved Neanderthals. Not proven, just a theory some scientists have. But it clearly is part of human nature to stand on top of others.
There’s competing theories that we just bred with Neanderthals and we’re the result. Explains a lot of our DNA.
I think you’re on much thinner ice saying that it’s a part of our nature to stand over others.
If anything, cooperation is our most natural inclination.
well yeah, they raped thier slaves for sure. Thus the dna. But if you notice throughout history humans cooperate well only when it is to beat another group down. So the nature is to form exclusive groups and then supress other groups.
Sure, cooperation with the others in the tribe. Not global cooperation.
Is humanity as a whole not your tribe? On what basis do you decide who is in your tribe?
humans seem to favor exclusiveness, so as long as your tribe is better than another tribe, all good. But the global tribe has no one to exclude.
fuck those aliens
You call it ‘being in our nature’ but that is just behavior that may have been necessary millions of years ago for survival. We are so far past the point of struggling for survival, all of humanity could be living an average middle class life if wealth was distributed appropriately.
Totally agree. But it will take a really longbtime to evolve sadly.
