The rich nations have exploited the world for hundreds of years. It is becoming increasingly difficult to exploit resources, since low hanging fruits are alread

The rich nations have exploited the world for hundreds of years. It is becoming increasingly difficult to exploit resources, since low hanging fruits are already gone and there is much more concurrence in exploiting; even a reverse movement in which the developing world is claiming its share in the world product - even leading to emerging powers. No wonder the rich world is retracting, there is little to gain and much to lose: now the strategy is closed borders, strong security policies, withdrawing from international programs, and fight by proxy with the existing and upcoming world powers for areas of influence, without being directly involved in order to avoid the backslash that the increasingly harsh policies that will be required in order to continue exploiting world resources will cause. The rich voter demands from its government only one thing: increase our standard of living, whatever it takes.