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How do you extract, like, 10x wealth from the poor of a world that had less than x wealth in total a few centuries ago? Without ever increasing the total amount
by abecedarius 3y ago
How do you extract, like, 10x wealth from the poor of a world that had less than x wealth in total a few centuries ago? Without ever increasing the total amount of actual wealth?
- Supermancho 3y ago> 10x wealth from the poor of a world The middle class of Asia happily became the workhorse of the US. The median quality of life for the planet improved, but that was about technology and efficiency of the systems moving about goods...to the richer countries profiting. The movie Outsourced was an on-the-nose look at the effect the US had on poorer nations from the 2000s to today.
- abecedarius 3y agoExploitation does exist. It sounds like you're not disagreeing however about real growth, or even that it's been reaching more of the world.