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That's like saying "As a developing nation, I don't see why I should mandate fire code. Developed nations are where they are because workers burnt to death in
by yongjik 6y ago
That's like saying "As a developing nation, I don't see why I should mandate fire code. Developed nations are where they are because workers burnt to death in gruesome preventable disasters."
And, mind you, in any developing nation, there will be people who raise these rhetorics and try to make it an issue of national pride or something. Because these people have much to gain by keeping workers in dangerous buildings, bulldozing national forests, or depleting fisheries.
- renewiltord 6y agoSure. If I were running a developing nation I would do precisely those things: burn my people in a furnace that accelerates overall development. Every single success story of the last century has taken this strategy. Because it turns out that the best way to make life better for future citizens is to throw some smaller number of present citizens in the furnace. China didn't raise 400 million out of poverty by accident. Lives were paid. Intentionally.