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The fact that it's a lot in Egypt or Myanmar just means wages are low in those countries. It's easy to say "well that's just the way it is" while you're sat nea

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• godelski 4y ago
  You're simplifying things too much though. There are important questions still. For example, how much does an apple cost? Rent? These are not equal in these countries. But also, let's say that they paid $3/hr in Egypt you could end up flooding the market. $15/hr and it could ironically be disastrous. We actually have seen stuff like this before when Westerners move in to other countries. The problem is that the local markets can't compete. Then we have a whole neocolonialism situation. If your goal is to actually help people in a country get out of poverty this is actually quite a difficult goal to achieve without taking over that country (implicitly or explicitly). We don't want to physically invade. We don't want to economically invade. But we also don't want them to sit in poverty so we have to do something right? So how do you do that and let them maintain their independence? They might not even want to work with us to begin with! Don't pretend that these are trivial problems and us westerners sitting at a computer just know what's best. That's how colonialism started in the first place.