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Sounds like we need to start spending globally. Massive infrastructure spending in third world countries to encourage demand for our products.
by pilom 10y ago
Sounds like we need to start spending globally. Massive infrastructure spending in third world countries to encourage demand for our products.
- vosper 10y agoIf that worked then it would be a short term fix that would run out when the third world countries are elevated to the same state.
- pilom 10y agoTrue but I bet it lasts us until either 1) after my lifetime or 2) we can redirect our efforts to supporting large numbers of people on other worlds or the terraforming necessary to start that process.
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- hurricaneSlider 10y agoUm. No thanks. Unless you're being sarcastic, the casual way in which this is being proposed makes me very uncomfortable. That is imperialism in all but name. An example of such a phenomena is that South Africa was forced to take on millions of tons of American "waste" poultry. It hurts our economy and makes us policy slaves. The IMF is another institution which has a long history of forcing African countries to act counter to their best interests. We'd like to retain some scraps of our sovereignty.
- Sacho 10y ago> An example of such a phenomena is that South Africa was forced to take on millions of tons of American "waste" poultry. I haven't heard of this. How was it forced to do so? Did the US threaten to bomb South Africa unless South Africa buys its waste poultry?
- hurricaneSlider 10y agoThey way they do everything else. The threat of economic sanctions. Tit-for-tat. Except that the US has the stronger hand
- pilom 10y agoNot at all what I was thinking. I was imagining the US spending money to build highways and electrical infrastructure and water purification plants etc. At that point people can start spending money on luxuries we produce rather than on basic needs we don't.