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09-18-2017 10:54 AM |
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Originally Posted by AzzarTheGod
(Post 2582593)
i need an education on globalism
what is stopping eastern countries from selling goods wholesale to American marketplaces? whats the physical force or law stopping them from doing this?
In America we have NAFTA (which is the force that regulates Mexico) What is the European/American version preventing Iran etc from reaching the western marketplace wholesale? help wake me so I can include it in my future talking points with other pals.
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Well to sell finished products you need to develop industry. Car factories in Mexico didn't just pop up over night -- they worked really hard to make deals and support the auto industry in Mexico. Same with China.
The problem with any country rich with natural resources -- is the "natural resource curse." Big countries like Britain , Germany, US, France and China can control who gets elected in places like like Nigeria for example. However, the leadership of Nigeria has very little incentive to develop their economy. They can just control the natural resources like diamonds, rubber and oil -- and then take a huge chunk of it for "government funding." The big countries give them weapons, legitimacy (who is recognized at the UN is a big deal), military intelligence and training etc. The reason armies of these countries are so usless, is because they are mostly their to repress their own people, not actually defend them from foreign threats.
So this is why it is called neo-colonialism. It's not much different then when an English lord was in charge. It's just now that English lord calls the "democratically elected leader" and makes threats with trade deals, military and political support to get the prices right. Not to mention they are dependent on Businessmen and women from elite countries to show them how to make an industry to compete in the modern global economy. Not everything Ford is doing is bullshit -- some of those guys know things people in Nigera don't (esp with a shit education system they have no incentive to improve). You don't really know how to make cars until you go work at the car industry place for awhile (to put it simply).
Therefore, there are very few factories being built in Nigera -- even though if they was a game of Civilization I'd say they had an extremely good starting spot. Too many other Empires shot far too ahead, and now they can be pushed around an controlled.
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