Would a more economically prosperous Africa be good for the current first world. Or is the current state of African affairs with weak corrupt and easily influenced nations more to their benefit. I am only asking about it from a strictly economic perspective.
Economics of third and first world
William Cox
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Jacob Scott
That is a really good question with no easy answer. On the one hand keeping them desperate and poor means that they have to sell you their natural resources at rock-bottom prices. On the other hand nations that aren't corrupt third world hellholes cn actually afford to buy the products the first world is selling. America for instance has benefitted vastly more from Japan being a developed nation after WWII than is we had gone full punitive colonization on their asses, ditto for Germany. It may be however that there is a "breaking point" where only so many nations can be developed before there are no longer enough poor ones to supply them. I disagree with this as one can look at things like the oil market where the US can both be a major resource extractor but still be first world.
Michael Moore
It makes no sense to have them corrupt abd desperate. Nations with low corruption and high quality of living are more efficient at whatever it is they're doing, be it conflict mineral extraction or high finance.
William Lee
Of course, the whole world gains from economic prosperity.
Angel Williams
If they were wealthy and not corrupted shitholes we wouldn't have a refugee crisis, which is not in the interests of the neoliberal elites.
Anthony Taylor
You only have to look at Saudi Arabia and the United States tova corrupt nation that is bennifical to the first world country. Corrupt shitty nations are more.like prizes to be won than trading partners.
Jeremiah Gray
Well then why do governments in first world countries usually support shitty dictators that hinder that prosperity. If the first world really used it's economic power it could modernize much of the world.
Lucas Hughes
So did mercantilism ever actually go away or did it change forms?
Jack Gray
They don't? Shitty dictators usually arise because Africans are shitty leaders.
John Hall
First world governments aren't driven by global economic prosperity