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It's fairly well known and accepted that regulations and rules in western countries are FAR stricter than those in Asian and Indian countries. If you care about
by wfo 11y ago
It's fairly well known and accepted that regulations and rules in western countries are FAR stricter than those in Asian and Indian countries. If you care about privacy EU > US > everywhere else (any non western country has literally zero protections or laws about privacy that are enforced), if you care about workers being treated decently EU and US are bastions of fairly mediocre to bad treatment, everywhere else is sweatshops and de facto slavery.
- kuschku 11y agoThat’s not really true, though. Look at Japan. Sweatshops and de facto slavery isn’t everywhere, but you’re kinda right, countries which were colonies before – mostly in Africa, Asia and South America – tend to have less wealth and prosperity.
- eppsilon 11y ago> ...countries which were colonies before – mostly in Africa, Asia and South America – tend to have less wealth and prosperity The US, Canada, and Australia are rather prominent counterexamples.
- kuschku 11y agoThey also are countries where there were enough immigrants that the native population was mostly displaced – it’s unfair to put them in the same category as colonies where only a tiny immigrant population ruled over the native population. And even in some of these countries the wealth and prosperity for the native population has been an issue even in the past decades.
- vkou 11y agoAll three of which have systematically exterminated their native populations, to make room for settlers. The ones that survived have gotten, and are still getting a pretty poor deal, too.
- chaostheory 11y agoTaiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore are also good counterexamples.
- chaostheory 11y agoJapan is maybe the lone exception in Asia, even when you include South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Then again I could be proven wrong.