That guy bothers me. What he doesn't account for is that, most likely, a place that would have to invest in education is not a developed nation in the first pl

That guy bothers me. What he doesn't account for is that, most likely, a place that would have to invest in education is not a developed nation in the first place. However, whatever you produce and especially export to the developed countries most likely comes from low-skilled labour to begin with, because that's how capitalism organised its centre/periphery-model of outsourcing labour costs. A boost in education does nothing to change the underlying power relations and economic networks that govern generation of wealth, since you still have to rely on exporting products that come from cheap labour, whether your workers can now read/write or not. This is especially true for an increasingly more globalised world, and since the numbers only take into account anything past 1960, I get the feeling he is omitting rather a lot that would have to be addressed.