Are RICH countries only rich because they exploit the POOR countries?
Some countries, such as Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, are rich because they control extremely valuable natural resources. Unless they are cheated or give their oil away, they will be rich. While they could be more generous, as Venezuela is, with poor countries or people I don’t think simply selling a valuable resource should be termed exploitation. Assuming for the sake of argument that China is rich, it is rich due to a great deal of hard work. Doing a lot of hard work, then selling what you make cheaply is not exploitation. Imperialism, however, was often exploitive. If one nation seizes control of another, enslaves its people in say, cocoa plantations, that is certainly exploitation. There is a lot of middle ground, ambiguous situations that are somewhat exploitive. Perhaps the worst of these in the modern world are nations with vast resources who sell those resources for high prices to the developed world, but little or none of the money ends up being used for the common welfare in the r
