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What does that even mean? Who is dependent on what in that scenario?
by dreamfactory 13y ago
What does that even mean? Who is dependent on what in that scenario?
- sliverstorm 13y agoThe people receiving food stop working to secure food on their own. They grow entitled, and expect food aid. It's an observed phenomenon in Africa.
- dreamfactory 13y agoWasn't that the whole idea - for them to stop producing and polluting the planet? That giving them food would be cheaper. Of course it would threaten our dependence on cheap clothes and expensive gadgets.
- sliverstorm 13y agoIt's not a socially stable option. Not because we want cheap gadgets, but because of the social imbalance. Also from an ethical point of view, it's not very fair to deny them the chance to become a developed nation.
- dreamfactory 13y agoPeople don't sit around on their bums for too long - it's just not in our nature. If they weren't slaving away in factories they might end up as a society that primarily produces cultural capital (huge social stability there) or they might develop a service-based economy. In the wider scheme, Chinese manufacturing is probably more important to the west than China.
- sliverstorm 13y agoHow important Chinese manufacturing is to China has little to do with the ramifications of perennially feeding a country for nothing.
- dualogy 13y ago> It's an observed phenomenon in Africa. Here I was expecting.. "in the western world" ;D