Comments by "G L" (@gelinrefira) on "Upper Echelon"
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It is rich that westerners are still talking about moralit when their entire economic foundation and standard of living was built on capital made by plundering the world for 500 years of colonialism and today with financial neocolonialism, and exporting their problems to everyone.
There is only 1 thief running around because you are not stealing when you are retrieving what was rightfully yours in the first. It will be like saying that Egypt is stealing from the British museum by retrieving the item within. The technological advancements made in the west is built on the high standard of living of the people living there, because there is enough excess resources for colleges to churn out STEM grads, and money to hire these grads and buy the equipment to do research. That excesses, that capital are generated on the foundation built from 500 years of colonialism and neocolonialism.
You can go to college and learn math and electronics engineering mostly because your ancestors plundered the Global South to build that standard of living, and even today your government export inflation, and uses the exorbitant privilege of the USD system to squeeze value out of the Global South. Without the loot from colonialism, and sustain from the modern financial system that still extracts value from the world, there wouldn't be an ASML, Intel, AMD, OpenAI, Microsoft, Apple or whatever in the west.
Let me end this meaningless question of morality by framing this situation in the correct way: it's time for the west to pay reparations.
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