I have a lot of ideas but to start, just the basic thing you are suggesting: 'pouring' 'tons' of money into poor countries.. this is just not the reality.
We won't be able to fix the problem if we can't see it. Most people are living in a false reality, a matrix reality created by the propaganda machine. The truth is that the first world exploits the second and third world and hogs the resources. These 'tons' of money are pittance. The US alone uses more oil than the next three or four countries combined. The second world barely even figures in.
Its very simple: the distribution of things is just quite unfair, deliberately so. Many countries are actively repressed. The World Bank provides loans as a mechanism of economic warfare or modern-day colonization. Again, a major problem is that many of the citizens of the first world aren't even aware of this.
So people in every country need accurate holistic information and to have an egalitarian perspective. The first part is not happening, as I mentioned. The second part is not the case either -- most everyone in the first world subscribe to a type of Social Darwinism which is just the latest rationale for brutal primitive classism.
First, we are spending alot of money on development, not just countries but NGOs too. Mostly in a bad way (somethimes with very good intentions sometimes with with not so got intentions).
"Its very simple: the distribution of things is just quite unfair, deliberately so.
Many countries are actively repressed. The World Bank provides loans as a mechanism of economic warfare or modern-day colonization.
Again, a major problem is that many of the citizens of the first world aren't even aware of this."
This is true in a way. The problem is that these countries let them self get hooked.
- They overspend on stuff (mostly military but infrastructure too) witch the often buy from other countries instead of investing in (and thereby building) there own industries.
- Then the get hooked and let the controll of there resources slide to private industrie from outside the country (witch would be ok if the taxed them enougth)
All this is happening and it is bad I agree but these countries have to learn that if somebody comes and offers something its in the sellers intresst.
This is not really diffrent from telcos offering bad deals you have to look at that stuff befor you buy.
All this said I agree that the first world does really bad things they often act like the give a helping hand but its not really a helping hand.
I agree that this needs to stop. The World Bank and the IMF do alot of bad things.
I do not think that they deserve what they get but I would say that it is in part there fault.
"So people in every country need accurate holistic information "
You cant expect everybody to know enougth about economics but you can expect the countrie leaders to do so. The problem is that building up everything from with the west is much faster then doing it on your own and if you have bad leaders (diktators/persidents/kings) who only care for there themself, accepting "aid" from the west is the fastes way to get rich (a hole other problem is that sometimes the west helps them to stay in power)
tl:dr:
- What is called "aid" from 1st world often isn't
- Developing countries don't look close on what they buy
I just don't like the term economic warfare or modern-day colonization. Its a Free-Market there are just good players using bad players, but the bad players did not get forced to play or to play the way they did (Expet when the are actually forced like Iraq).
Blame the victim much? Its a lot more malicious than you think. The countries aren't doing anything that makes them deserving of being exploited. http://www.johnperkins.org/
We won't be able to fix the problem if we can't see it. Most people are living in a false reality, a matrix reality created by the propaganda machine. The truth is that the first world exploits the second and third world and hogs the resources. These 'tons' of money are pittance. The US alone uses more oil than the next three or four countries combined. The second world barely even figures in.
Its very simple: the distribution of things is just quite unfair, deliberately so. Many countries are actively repressed. The World Bank provides loans as a mechanism of economic warfare or modern-day colonization. Again, a major problem is that many of the citizens of the first world aren't even aware of this.
So people in every country need accurate holistic information and to have an egalitarian perspective. The first part is not happening, as I mentioned. The second part is not the case either -- most everyone in the first world subscribe to a type of Social Darwinism which is just the latest rationale for brutal primitive classism.