Mekstizzle wrote:
I was watching a documentary yesterday, basically the Congo (the big one) has resources of around $12 trillion.
when did harvesting aids become such a lucrative business
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No, they're hit with sanctions if they try to nationalize the work others have done for them. Hugo Chavez has essentially stolen billions of dollars in development that foreign companies put into his own country. The only reason he's not currently being hit by sanctions is we need his oilMekstizzle wrote:
I was watching a documentary yesterday, basically the Congo (the big one) has resources of around $12 trillion. If they could get their act together and stop letting themselves and foreigners plunder the country with ease they would actually be able to be one of the richest countries in the entire world.
The problem is that any country that tries to develop its own industry instead of opening up its markets to foreign countries are usually hit with sanctions and such, most Western countries want their own companies coming in with investment and running things and they'll do whatever they can to make sure it stays like that
I'm really fucking tired of seeing people mention the propaganda about third world countries being exploited. It's total bs.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
The people of third world countries do get exploited in the sense their countries wealth is looted and winds up in the Swiss bank accounts of their corrupt rulers.
Fuck Israel
Key reason.Dilbert_X wrote:
The people of third world countries do get exploited in the sense their countries wealth is looted and winds up in the Swiss bank accounts of their corrupt rulers.
The west could decline to do business with them but no, we go into it knowing the country is getting screwed.
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Fuck Israel
Most cases 3rd world shit holes stop being 3rd world shit holes after a lot of foreign investment. Asia's a lot better off now than it was 20 years ago.Dilbert_X wrote:
The west could decline to do business with them but no, we go into it knowing the country is getting screwed.
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