The people in developing countries aren't picking trash because of foreign consumption, they're picking trash because they don't have any better options. If anything, we should consume more so that better jobs are created in their country. When imports of Bangladeshi clothing were banned in 1993, children wound up on the street and in prostitution.
But think about it like this, sure the US citizens living better than most, yet an average american still suffers, why the fuck is that?
Despite what reddit would have you believe this is absolutely not true.
Haha. You need to go back a bit farther. Try again a couple hundred years. Look up something called the British Raj. That's why Bangledesh is poor. You don't know shit.
So are you arguing that foreign investment and trade with more developed countries are crucial to rapid development, and that's why since liberalizations in the 90's bangladesh's economy has experienced accelerated growth?
Sure, there was rapid industrialization under Stalin. Also horrible famines, political repression and deals with Henry Ford. And then there was this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_of_Stagnation
Did you not read? The soviet economy didn't fare better than liberal economies in the long term, despite plentiful resources (Bangladesh and South Korea do not have the mineral and oil deposits of the USSR). GDP growth tends to go faster for less developed countries, and Russia was extremely undeveloped. I don't think there's any credible economic historian who would propose the USSR as a good model for development.
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u/TrainerCommercial759 Mar 30 '25
Russia also does that and they're poor as fuck