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"A few percentage points of economic growth" makes it sound so trivial. When what you're really saying is you want to keep billions of poor people around the wo
by codebolt 3y ago
"A few percentage points of economic growth" makes it sound so trivial. When what you're really saying is you want to keep billions of poor people around the world away from the chance at a better life.
- _y5hn 3y agoYou very well know that is not how the current economic systems work.
- codebolt 3y agoWhat I do know is that Nigeria was recently forced to cut their fuel subsidy, and I highly suspect that was done under indirect pressure from western environmentalists. Which would be a very concrete example of making a couple hundred million very poor people even worse off.
- _y5hn 3y agoFair point. But the deeper problem was most of that money never trickled down to its own citizens, built infrastructure or got reinvested in the country. Someone else, not the people, became "owners", making foreign agents the policy-makers. Just pointing out that the deeper issues often gets lost in the geopolitics. When it progressively makes people's lives worse or exponentially increases debts, it really all leads to the same outcomes in the end.