“freedom is merely privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all”

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    This logic makes no sense, because privileged Western countries are in the position to consider not letting the filthy poors from the global south in. Countries in the global south aren’t in a position to not let Western sexpats in, even thought they should.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    It’s so stupid. If America (or Britain) is a “rich” nation no one would have to go to the “poor” nations for affordable Healthcare and education.

    You are unlikely to see the billionaires going to some private hospital in India for a heart surgery, the type of westerners who go to global south countries with private Healthcare disparity are the “middle-class”, those who have enough money and time to travel but not enough to afford the expensive domestic Healthcare.

  • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Oh, it’s about us going there alright… accessing the plant, mineral, and labor resources in cheaper nations, their compradors kids studying overseas, returning to bake their countrymen in the sun, invading and occupying wherever we like…

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    4 months ago

    Okay cool so clearly the author is going to analyze the exploi… oh no

  • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    Goes to show that the difference in purchasing power between different countries is partially a product of geopolitics and not merely because the rich countries have more efficient economies.

    In any rational world, nobody from a rich country would need to travel to a poor country to increase their purchasing power. The very idea would be nonsensical. Imagine going to a country that produces things more inefficiently and this somehow allows you to consume more products!

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      4 months ago

      https://hexbear.net/comment/5172599

      There is a lot to get into and I am short of time, but I wouldn’t really say “inefficient” - after all, the median worker in the global south has directly and indirectly more surplus value extracted at lesser compensation (super-exploitation and super-profits) - that’s very efficient. All those mountains of goods produced and they will probably never go on any trips or consume like westerners feel they have to - EDIT I assume you meant to say that, maybe I just overreading things

      • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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        4 months ago

        Well, what I mean exactly is that production in the poorer nations is usually significantly more labor intensive. If the labor of rich country citizens exchanged at the same rate as those of poorer countries, a first worlder would going to a third world country would actually experience a massive decline in purchasing power.