Trumptonium wrote:Saiwania wrote:
It doesn't happen to enough of an extent anymore. Going back to true imperialism would be fantastic. Decolonization of Africa was a big mistake. The silver lining that we have seen since the 20th century is the world overall having become richer. The long term goal should be to aggressively develop every region of the world. Not every country can be rich but relatively speaking, it probably is possible to achieve a "good enough" standard of living in nearly every corner of the globe.
Leaving Africa undeveloped is a huge threat to the world, because we're looking at the prospect of the world's population becoming majority Black. This can't be allowed to happen. It isn't too late to put a stop to Africa's projected population explosion.
Leaving Africa undeveloped is not a threat to the world. Our mistake was with China and India - opening them up to our markets and vice versa. This allowed them to become more developed, and in the case of China, become the primary economic power today, and potentially the hegemony of tomorrow.
This all stems from the lobbying of the Old Elite in the West in attaining lower quality and lower priced labour across the world with little regulation and low running costs and every incentive to outsource and export instead.
The world was ruined by Nixon. The ending of Western economic imperialism, the admission of Rest of the World to Western markets and the ending of Bretton Woods. There is a reason why real household earnings of Americans rose 1940-1970 then flatlined until today, and it will only get worse into the future.
Besides, it is clear that the Chinese system of government has only been reinforced by the recent mass development of PRC. God knows what they will use that power for in 20 or 30 years when they'll be two to three times the size of the United States. We already have a good idea from the South China Sea and the Confucius Institute.
Good. The West needs to stop being greedy and let other nations breath for once.
