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Resources are not homogeneously distributed either though. Coltan for your smartphone has to be mined by children in the Congo before being shipped to fabs in C
by kiliantics 4y ago
Resources are not homogeneously distributed either though. Coltan for your smartphone has to be mined by children in the Congo before being shipped to fabs in China, etc. Most supply chains are just so global and complex. Reorganising to have local production in well off nations will be very extreme, not just "a bit more expensive"
- brutusborn 4y agoYou're right that there are exceptions, but I don't think this would make life for Rich people much worse. Worst case Rich countries will Annex resource rich countries, or just use predatory loans to gain control like China. As always happens, poor powerless people are the losers. If you beleive the article, the only reason the majority world supplier of Coltan (Australia) stopped producing is because of cheap African labour. https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-conflict-mineral-coltan-mining-in-dr-congo-and-australia/ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-conflict-mineral-colta...