"We must go and exploit them as the ruthless, red in tooth and claw, capitalists and free marketeers that we are. Simply because it is the absence of capitalism

"We must go and exploit them as the ruthless, red in tooth and claw, capitalists and free marketeers that we are. Simply because it is the absence of capitalism and markets that allows poverty, their presence that defeats it." I believe the same argument was made for black slavery. That black slaves were better off than their African counterparts, therefore slavery is good. Same logic, different time.