> 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.

> 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.