what chasing development does to a nigga

[Hargeysa]

Global Capitalism is so strange when you really look at it. I mean what was even the plan here? Base the entire economy and way of life around endless economic growth using a finite "master resource" like fossil fuels, let the rich get away with whatever and dodge taxes left and right while you proceed to blood-suck the middle and working classes to keep the system functioning until the cost of living becomes child-bearing prohibitive.

Then you just decline population wise while the fossil fuels run out and, despite all the bullshit around renewables, have no real replacement for fossil fuels in regards to industrial agriculture, widescale transport and logistics (i.e. shipping and planes), drain the planet of resources like minerals and topsoil then... what?

This was some of the most short-term, greedy and absurd thinking I've ever seen.

Capitalism in its nature is predatory.

Congo is one of the best examples of this. Their lands are blessed, but team capitalism will never let them flourish.

A little over a hundred years ago, the Belgians realised the Congo had abundant rubber, which was valuable for the newly formed automotive industry at the time. They basically enslaved the natives, and threatened (and did) cut off their limbs if they didn't meet the rubber quota. This was used to enrich Belgium of course.

Even after they got their independence, the westerners helped murder Congo's inspiring leader, because he wanted to get the best value for their precious resources (by gauging what prices countries are willing to pay, including the soviets), rather than selling it to the west for peanuts. Technically, he was playing by the rules of the free market, but that doesn't mean anything if you don't have formidable military and political power.

We're currently in the early stages of the 4th industrial revolution. This is being powered once again by congo, which has the essential raw materials that's used in all our electronics (e.g. cobalt). Once again, globals powers are exploiting it. Because Congo is unstable, they can get an incredible resource at a cut-price.

Despite the fact Congo is immensely blessed with raw materials, it means f all because it's in the interests of all the global powers that it remains unstable and underdeveloped. Congo is unfortunately amongst the poorest countries in the world today.

This is just one example, but as you rightly pointed out, capitalism is very much concerned with the here and now. Short-termism is a feature of capitalism.

 

[wonyluvr]

nigga is evil nigga dajjal of 3rd world countries

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Highlights-of-my-trip-to-Nigeria-and-Ethiopia

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[indigoblack]

it will just be a contraction of the economy and a social reset. they will not devolve like the poor countries. theres a big gap between how this will affect the rich and poor. if kenya goes below 2.2 TFR they are DONE

also japan has higher TFR than many european countries (italy, poland, spain etc) and a higher social cohesion. it's main problem is that the elderly are just too many and will place a burden on the productive. the government was already doing work to promote natalism for some time now

people do this thing where they gawk at asians for this while ignoring how worse the problem is in europe, some racist bs about asian men being impotent

The Asian counties are a lot more Xenophobic & anti- immigration compared to Europe tho

They’re homogenous societies and Asian culture is far too alien to attract fobs

 

[Keep it a boqol]

The third world is adopting modernism without any of the perks but with all the pushback it seems

 

[The truth seeker]

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As long as your economy is based on capitalism like the west they will always exist they have most of our politicians in there back pocket there not going nowhere

 

[The truth seeker]

The third world is adopting modernism without any of the perks but with all the pushback it seems

In countries like the Philippines American companies come build factories and pay the workers like 3$ how can your country reach first world standards in that situation

 

[PilferingKombucha]

The third world is adopting modernism without any of the perks but with all the pushback it seems

That's something I also heard on Twitter.

The 3rd World is where annual pride parades,hipster movements and extremely large slums co-exist in the same district.

 

[The truth seeker]

That's something I also heard on Twitter.

The 3rd World is where annual pride parades,hipster movements and extremely large slums co-exist in the same district.

Latin America and Africa are finished what little economic out put they have is stolen by corrupt government officials and foreign business


Argentina might be the sole exception with there new president

 

[Aseer]

Capitalism in its nature is predatory.

Congo is one of the best examples of this. Their lands are blessed, but team capitalism will never let them flourish.

A little over a hundred years ago, the Belgians realised the Congo had abundant rubber, which was valuable for the newly formed automotive industry at the time. They basically enslaved the natives, and threatened (and did) cut off their limbs if they didn't meet the rubber quota. This was used to enrich Belgium of course.

Even after they got their independence, the westerners helped murder Congo's inspiring leader, because he wanted to get the best value for their precious resources (by gauging what prices countries are willing to pay, including the soviets), rather than selling it to the west for peanuts. Technically, he was playing by the rules of the free market, but that doesn't mean anything if you don't have formidable military and political power.

We're currently in the early stages of the 4th industrial revolution. This is being powered once again by congo, which has the essential raw materials that's used in all our electronics (e.g. cobalt). Once again, globals powers are exploiting it. Because Congo is unstable, they can get an incredible resource at a cut-price.

Despite the fact Congo is immensely blessed with raw materials, it means f all because it's in the interests of all the global powers that it remains unstable and underdeveloped. Congo is unfortunately amongst the poorest countries in the world today.

This is just one example, but as you rightly pointed out, capitalism is very much concerned with the here and now. Short-termism is a feature of capitalism.

This is precisely the reason I have been looking and reading up about syndicalism recently, I wonder if it could be tweaked and implemented on somalis.

 

[hayran]

In countries like the Philippines American companies come build factories and pay the workers like 3$ how can your country reach first world standards in that situation

They can, even if they are being paid pennies that factory and the roads connecting it to the port and warehouses are part of the industrial base. That’s crucial, when they get better at this en masse, consumers demand more which will increase the leverage for the Filipinos which means more money for the workers. That’s how it happened since countries first started industrialising

the other route you can take is paying them 3 dollars for office jobs (accounting, sales, IT). Shove them in offices and have the boss in America watch them on virtual machines. No large scale infrastructure, no real industrial capacity being built, just offices and the foreign boss watching them all day. This is the way of Indians and the busted, so-called (hilariously) African “economies of the future” (LOL). This is what will happen if you “high skill” and degreemaxx your populace as a poor country. The ones that could actually be adding value tend to just run away and emigrate, and these “educated” wagies won’t be having much kids either

 

[PilferingKombucha]

Latin America and Africa are finished what little economic out put they have is stolen by corrupt government officials and foreign business


Argentina might be the sole exception with there new president

Argentina also seems to be a NGMI.

The president isn't corrupt but seems just too incompetent to improve the economy.

He's also heavily pro-Israel if I remember correctly.

 

[DivineMartial]

chasing development will be your downfall in this new century

Lowkey sounds like coping

 

[PilferingKombucha]

Lowkey sounds like coping

Most likely is.

A country's development speed is almost always proportional to it's population.

 

[GemState]

This paper written in 1946 about the trend of Non-Western countries prematurely going through a much worse and accelerated demographic transition relative to Europe was spot on.