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Because they essentially exported their poverty to the first world.

• bergenty 4y ago
  Poverty in the first world isn’t real poverty.
  • jojobas 4y ago
    Some 3 million Australians and 10+ million in the US went hungry at least once over last year. You sure can be worse than that, but that's pretty bad already.
    • bergenty 4y ago
      If you want food you just go to a food kitchen. It’s not real.
      • MJsGlove 4y ago
        “Just stop being poor bro!”
        • ausudhz 4y ago
          If only they could work 45 hours a day and do 3 different jobs like any other billionaire we won't be talking about this. They're just lazy
        • bergenty 4y ago
          If you can crawl to the food bank they give you food, for free. Where do I imply “stop being poor”?
• ausudhz 4y ago
  or probably the first world was stealing their assets (natural resources) while exporting disgrace (weapons, drugs)? You should read a bit more so you'd know for example what the opium wars have done to China and what the colonialism has done to India (both perpetrated by the same first world country) Historically India and China were always the wealthiest (up to the second industrial revolution) regions out there (as in the concept of India and China as we know now are post world war II) What we are actually seeing today is a rebalancing of wealth that is pretty much needed so that in the US a person would need to have just 1 vacation instead of 3, while in India someone can put some food in their table and allow their kids to go to college.
  • jojobas 4y ago
    Sure, let's justify a modern disaster by a past one. First world's wealth of the 20th century had nothing to do with India's or China's misfortunes of yesteryear, European/US de-industrialization and poverty is 100% globalization-inflicted.
    • ausudhz 4y ago
      So was the right thing to engage in wars in Asia and colonize 2/3 of the world? You've no idea of what these actions have done long term for the countries. Those things are pretty relevant since India form example gained his independence around 70 years ago, not 4 century And clearly you never read any history book
    • saiya-jin 4y ago
      You are wrong in both your posts, colonialism literally raped every country and stole any wealth that was there to be stolen. Humans, animals, crops, minerals etc. You should travel around a world a bit especially in affected countries/continents, clearly this enlightening activity evaded you.
    • ClumsyPilot 4y ago
      Lets not blame other countries for our fucksups, half the income of western families goes to housing and thats noone's fault but ours
  • kwere 4y ago
    these countries were always agrarian economies that had enourmous GDP numbers due to their sheer population numbers which supported a minuscule wealthy landed elite, nothing comparable to industrialised and service based economies. Explotation was always limited, first due to tecnological limits, so it cant be used to describe systemic failure in decades spans. The culpript for stagnation is easily found in Centralization, mindless bureaucratization, socialism and commando economy idiocy both in Cina and India, and how things improved when approaches changed after decades of stagnation at best. >in the US a person would need to have just 1 vacation instead of 3, while in India someone can put some food in their table and allow their kids to go to college this is a view of economics which put the center of economic productivity in raw workhours and not organizations and capital. Not true in most cases, the competitivity of poor countries outside of manpower intensive Industries (es: garments, which moved out of china in 2018 due to labour cost) is low to no regulation on (bad) business practicies which increase shareholder values edit: economics are not for the most part zero sum games