Does our wealth depend on the third world being poor?
There are a number of things contributing to the generation of wealth, foreign poverty doesn’t quite help us at all. One, being the consumption of energy. As soon as it was discovered that the consumption of energy was directly proportional to the generation of wealth in a country, foreign states volleyed to try to get the US to sign the Kyoto protocol. This is one reason China is starting to do well in spite of economic oppression, they’re consuming monstrous amounts of energy and using it towards constructive purposes for the consumer market. The concept of a true capitalist market is that the people elect who has power by using their dollar to only purchase what products and services they see adequate, that, being with the necessary protections to stop those who the people have given power from being an oppressive force. Certainly you wouldn’t feel free to walk down the streets if others were free to murder you, there need to be certain protections to preserve the integrity of freed
