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>>18906812
>The result is the economies of the global south underperform because no one is motivated to be productive and consequently GDP and HDI suffer because their governments don’t have enough of a tax base to keep roads clean and non-bumpy (and because the politicians are corrupt and embezzle the funds anyways).

i can only speak for south america and why the "underperforming" aspect, it´s because how the spanish colonial system worked there, basically a sort of aristocratic based economy which extracted resources to export them to the metropoli, now when they got independence, it basically functioned the same way but with new markets, the path towards industrialization started around 19th and 20th century but of course there were a lot of conflicts internally and externally that prevented them to form an unified policy about what to do, i´m generalizing here of course but you get the point

saying that a lot of people doesn´t work and that´s why there isn´t a growing economy is fucking retarded, reeks of anglosaxon biased, real life isn´t that simple, you can even say that the working class in south america are better off than the ones in europe since they don´t have to live in crappy apartments with foreign people who don´t talk their language and there isn´t a moral campaign against them that they should believe in X ideology to feel better about themselves