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> It's not the people of Brazil that are benefiting of the resources of the Amazon rainforest. Brazilian farmers would beg to disagree. > Even worse is believ
by unmole 3y ago
> It's not the people of Brazil that are benefiting of the resources of the Amazon rainforest.
Brazilian farmers would beg to disagree.
> Even worse is believing that the destruction of the rainforest is the catalyst for Brazil's growth.
You're attacking a strawman. I made no such claim. Although Brazil experienced significant growth during the China fueled commodity supercycle. That was possible thanks to... checks notes ... globalisation!
> When one can finally afford bread, they still are too busy to see how fucked up our global economic divide is.
Globalisation and free trade have lifted hundereds out of poverty and reduced economic inequality globally.
> Sometimes you need a vantage point to notice how unfair everything is.
Thankfully we have Whinging Saviors to tell us all about how everything is fucked despite things being significantly better than in the past:
What do you mean you can find a high paying job and afford to have a good standard of living? It is utter lunacy for you believe in the system! You're too poor to know!
- sph 3y agoDude, good for you that your life in the Global South has improved, and I mean that sincerely. But you're the one that has moved the focus to that. Would you mind if I whinge, like you keep on repeating ad nauseam, that here in our privileged world, things are not better than they were 20 years ago for most people except the ultra-rich? We do in fact have our own < 25 years old here as well, they are not only living on the equator as you seem to suggest. So if I accept that in poorer countries things have turned for the best, as you keep droning on, please accept that I have a perspective that here in our supposed ivory towers life for many people is worse, poorer and with less social mobility. These two outcomes are not incompatible with each other. Thank you and good day.
- unmole 3y agoPlease whinge all you like. Just don't generalise your doomer worldview to the whole world. > We do in fact have our own < 25 years old here as well, they are not only living on the equator as you seem to suggest. I specifically said the majority of people under 25 live in the Global South. That's simply an objective fact down to larger population and higher fertility. And the Global South has nothing to with the Equator.
- sph 3y agoAgain with your ad hominem and repeating the same two words (like an annoying kid that has just learned a fancy new word) to shut down any possibility of constructive disagreement. You're insufferable. Have a good one.
- unmole 3y agoAre you upset that your parochial world view can be summarised in two just two words? And do you really want to pretend your comment chain which went into irrelevant tangents was constructive?