>It's probably not worth engaging with you Oh, don't worry about me. Worry instead about the dumb, ahistorical position you've staked out here. 1) You claime

>It's probably not worth engaging with you Oh, don't worry about me. Worry instead about the dumb, ahistorical position you've staked out here. 1) You claimed VZ's oil industry was "incompetent" and that its "talent fled" leading to the people of VZ being "unable to understand" their industry. These were your exact words. But when I correctly summed up your argument with the paraphrase "they're too dumb," all of a sudden you back away from your own argument, as if it had shat itself. That cheesy evasion on your part inclines adults to be MORE suspicious of your argument, not less. 2) Literally every argument for colonial extraction of resources from indigenous populations has, for centuries of history now, been made in exactly the manner you have made it: the locals aren't advanced enough to realize the value from their resources. Therefore we HAVE to mine the gold, drill the oil, harvest the fruit, etc. Thus, foreign "investment" is necessary. This is capitalism at its most disgusting: dressed up in frilly underwear with "altruism" stitched across its ass. The argument is the definition of self-serving, and, as I've said, adults should be able to see through it by now. I can tell you the indigenous peoples of Iran, Chile, Nigeria, Canada, the US, Australia, Venezuala, ad infinitum, already do.