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> We can see that by seeing, that in the First World, everyone is basically richer than almost anyone who was alive 200 years ago. And we can also see that tho
by filleduchaos 5y ago
> We can see that by seeing, that in the First World, everyone is basically richer than almost anyone who was alive 200 years ago.
And we can also see that those riches in large part rest on the poverty of people who happen to be outside the first world, even for basic necessities like food and clothes.
Externalising the poverty doesn't make it not exist.
- chii 5y ago> Externalising the poverty poverty isnt some conserved property that needs to be "externalized" to make the developed world rich.
- filleduchaos 5y agoIt may not "need" to be[0], but the externalisation of poverty is precisely how the particular quality of life that the lower classes in most developed countries enjoy is maintained - from the workers that make their fast fashion to the ones that assemble (or mine raw materials for) electronics that they cannot afford themselves. 0. At some point in the not-so-far-off future we will get around to automating all of these things, but until then people have become too deeply entitled to commodities produced by other people that are paid poverty wages.