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Originally Posted by imotion s14
So no one figured out that "wealth" is productive capacity?
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Interesting you put this up. By tying wealth to productive capacity, then you essentially can define wealthy countries by ones having good work ethic and working ability and the poor ones by having no work ethic.
Watching discovery channel last night in "most dangers journeys"... There was a "bus service" were like 200 people hang off a 1 ton truck and go from one end of some african country to the other. In the middle of this trek, a giant mud hole is there from some rain storm and everyone has to get off while 5 people running the service try and use rocks, sticks and ropes to get this truck through the mud hole. Everyone else goes and sits under a tree.
As the camera man pan's over and interviews some of the people, they say "When you go back to USA, tell washington to come over and build us some roads". That struck me as quite peculiar as there are 200+ people sitting under a tree, their trip derailed, and their solution is the USA needs to fix this?? Not a single one of them picked up a shovel the whole time. They didn't look and say, geez if we band together this road will be awesome in like 1 or two days of labor. They sat, and sat and sat. Their best idea was for someone else to fix it. Never doing any work themselves. So if this is the case then maybe these african countries have a lack of "wealth". And with that, then, it's a social lack and distaste for wealth and no amount of money and "saving the children" will fix it. They actually want to starve and kill each other endlessly.