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>The first world went through terrible times to claw our way to modern prosperity. The first world outsourced the terribleness to the "global south" (aka poor

>The first world went through terrible times to claw our way to modern prosperity. The first world outsourced the terribleness to the "global south" (aka poor non-white people) and continues to do so. >we've been trying to come up with a model for charity and NGO-driven durable economic development out of poverty and have very little to show for it. Agreed, because you cannot fix the inherent problems of capitalism with more capitalism. As long as it's profitable to export misery elsewhere, the misery will keep being exported. It's absurd to try and mitigate the effects of large-scale perverse incentives with dribbles of toothless activism that doesn't challenge those perverse incentives at the source.

mlyle 3y ago
> The first world outsourced the terribleness to the "global south" (aka poor non-white people) and continues to do so. A lot of terribleness just went away. Economic development takes economic output. Your early economic output, before economic development, tends to be bad. Just clustering people in cities has myriad problems and teething pains before you get a lot of the real benefits. > fix the inherent problems of capitalism with more capitalism I don't consider most NGOs to be "more capitalism." > misery will keep being exported Countries and people are generally quite happy to receive these economic opportunities compared to what the alternatives (subsistence farming) would be.