Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Re: White greed (about foreign policy) Message-ID: <327@talcott.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 19:00:05 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.327 Posted: Wed Mar 6 19:00:05 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 20:13:19 EST References: <293@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> <80@spar.UUCP> <311@cadre.ARPA> <314@cadre.ARPA> <316@cadre.ARPA> <320@talcott.UUCP> <766@uwmacc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Harvard Lines: 32 Xref: linus net.flame:7687 net.politics:7231 > > I disagree. Almost by definition, the Third World countries are poor. > > This is usually due to crummy internal economic policies, which gave the > > economies of these countries a slow exponential growth, as opposed to the > > West, whose economies have risen like a bat out of hell, up until the last > > few decades. These countries, now much poorer than the Western countries, > > would very much like to have some of the wealth/happiness/power of the > > West, so they beg us for loans, charity, etc. > > > > Greg Kuperberg > > harvard!talcott!gjk > > Like most apologists of economic imperialism, Greg states that we are doing > these countries a favor by investing in them. Let's take a look at some > figures about US foreign investment. Are we doing these countries a favor? [Statistics omitted] > It is clear from the above that the US gains in economic terms from > our economic relationships with foreign countries. ... > Jeff Myers The views above may or may not Of course the US gains. So do the foreign countries. What makes you think that these statements are mutually exclusive? I'll give you a painfully obvious example of mutual profit: The auto company no doubt made a profit off of the car they sold you. Do you regret that they sold you a car? Would you rather go without a car because the auto company made a profit? --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "2*x^5-10*x+5=0 is not solvable by radicals." -Evariste Galois.