• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    All one has to do is move out of one of these crappy western countries with all their social issues and corrupt governments

    The Western countries are the ones with all the accumulated infrastructure.

    • Attempted Murder@nord.pub
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      2 days ago

      Are you sure about that? Or is that a narrative you’d like to believe because it supports Western “greatness”? Plenty of non-Western countries have financial and physical infrastructure that rivals anything seen in Europe or North America.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Or is that a narrative you’d like to believe because it supports Western “greatness”?

        It’s the profits of Western imperialism. For all the talk of Free Markets, the US has insoourced critical manufacturing for a host of products. Especially high margin technologies.

        The US can build cars at a global scale because it can make every compartment of the car in house. Honduras and the Philippines and Azerbaijan and Egypt simply can’t do that.