I have to ask if you know anything about who is currently supplying children for the ultra-wealthy’s sexual entertainment
I don’t expect there is such an open practice, to be clear. I don’t really buy the pizzagate stuff.
It’s not impossible there was a third coconspirator that got away. It’s possible Epstein had competition, too, and of course it’s possible someone has taken his place. I don’t know which drug dealers billionares use, either, although I’m pretty sure they don’t sit around discussing how to hide their collective drug use.
The cheap labour isn’t some natural transitional state between “undeveloped” and “developed”. It is an imposed condition, and the only time such countries “develop” and improve their station is when the working class organises and forces change to happen.
I basically just disagree. The conventional economic interpretation makes plenty of sense, matches the figures and my anecdotal experiences, and places like South Korea have made this exact trip already.
There’s neoimperialism too, but the difference it makes from our end amounts to pennies. If we can crush the corruption Africa will develop a bit faster, not overnight. When someone over there wants a computer, they go to the West to buy it, not because they’re forced to but because they don’t have the infrastructure and institutional experience to build such a thing themselves.