Why cant third world countries that are not under the rule of an oppressive government, who have natural?

Question

resources to become self sustaining, simply copy the infrastructure systems implemented in America and become great nations?

Answer 1

Because its not just infrastructure but the entire social, economic and political system.

Answer 2

It requires transferring on knowledge and some other entity must be willing to invest that effort. We taught Japan how to industrialize after WW II. Then they proceeded to kick our butts at our own game. China is industrializing because we, and other counties, are setting up plants there. They also learned how to reverse engineer things. But it requires a level if stability first before other countries are willing to take the risk. So far, many African and Mid Eastern countries have not shown this stability.

The US borrowed and imported much from European countries to start our own industrial revolution. Germany has always been a great contributor of advanced sciences. But you have to have the political, economic and educational base on which to build.

This is not meant to be a slam, but countries based on strong fundamental Islamic beliefs don't see Western ways and modernization as a positive move. They resist it because they feel it brings evil into their society. Many of these 3rd World countries have strong Islamic influences.

Answer 3

because it took us 225 years to get where we are and we still have a lot of problems.

even if you have abundant natural resources to become self-sustaining, how are you going to go about getting them when you economy is crap and you don't have the monetary resources or manpower to get them? that's like sitting in a diamond mine with a pair of tweezers. what are you going to do?

also, the united states never started out as a third world country. we had help, initially, from the members in this country that were middle class (the ones that weren't broken by the war) and had france and spain who helped us out a little bit during the war. these third world countries aren't getting any help from anybody, regardless of what the us and united nations says. they have a much longer, much more difficult road to climb to get where we are.

and the only reason we are such a "great nation" is because we have succeeded in monopolizing a great deal of the world market through globalization and have enough nuclear warheads in our submarines and battleships alone to blow up the world 10 times over.

Answer 4

Mans truly 'evolution' is in the route of catastrophe. we gained't even assure a secure food furnish to ourselves for the subsequent week, no longer to point climate substitute which could have the coastline lapping at our the front doorways through 2100. there is not any chance of a worlwide democratic state in 500 years time, too many huge agency CEOs pick to dominate the global now and seeing as how they carry the money... (more advantageous than many international locations economies) they rule more advantageous than elected officials. answer: the Bible warns of todays complications in Mathew financial disaster 24 and the answer/bring about Psakm financial disaster 37. talk with Jehovahs Witnesses even as they call.

Answer 5

Because they are hampered by TRIBALISM - the sense that you, your immediate family (parents, grandparents, children, siblings and cousins) are a single, separate unit from the overall country - and that you are fighting for resources from every other tribe around you.

Rather than do things that contribute to your COUNTY out of your patriotism, you only do things that contribute to your TRIBE and patriotism is an odd, bizarre thing.

For example: you might be proud to be an Iragi in Iraq, but your allegience is to your tribe, not the country.

This in spite of all your natural resources...

Answer 6

They have to have the money to copy the infrastructure of the United States and they are poor countries.

Answer 7

3rd world countries can copy some of American approach towards nation building. But you have to discard some of them too especially their belief in 'social freedom'. Would you be proud to allow your daughters to have biological babies before they get married? And certainly I will never allow my leader to invade other countries if we have a veto power.

Answer 8

their definition of what makes a great nation might differ from the American definition.

Answer 9

lets see...poverty, sarvation, diseases, education issue...etc

To fix this countries must either go into further international debt (continuing the cycle) or hope that their past debts are wiped out

Answer 10

You want to bring disaster to these nations then having them copy current American systems and orgs would be a great way to do it. In fact many do, not realizing that America is living off the proceeds of our grandparents and great grandparents right now. American companies are sinking like lead weights under red tape and internal incompentence. Companies founded by people in the industry are seeing people who never worked at the base of the company running them into ruin. MBA's fresh out of college making rules that make no sense. Company rules forcing idleness and insanity upon workers.

Here are some examples. In a project I was doing for IBM I wanted to use Object Rex. I'd written the entire installation system in that and had it tested and working. It was easy to write, worked great. Then I tried to submit it and was told we'd have to pay for rights to use Object Rex, an IBM product on an IBM project. I thought that was ludicrous but checked to see what the costs would be. Sure enough, not only would the Object Rex people NOT allow free use of it for an IBM project they wanted such a high figure for it I had to scrap 2 months of work and rewrite it in of all ironies Visual C++ as all the IBM products were more expensive for in house development than they were if I bought it off the street. I refused to spend my own money for a multi million dollar project, so I requisistioned Visual C++ and started rewriting it in that language. This was basically 3 months of my salary thrown away over petty fiefdom politics within IBM.

I worked for Shell breifly once. After some of the most rigerous technical interviews I'd ever experienced and only a vague job desicription I was hired. I showed up to work. Not only did I not have access to the building, I had no computer, no seat, no login ID, no desk, nothing. Not just me but 10 others hired at same time were in the same spot. We were not poorly paid either. Unfortuantley this is fairly normal for big Corps. Seen the same thing at several other places. What was abnormal was they also required us to be to work on time but NOT to work. In fact when me and another guy contrary to orders actually produced a usefull sub rtn we were repremanded for doing work. We were also repremanded for not being at work despite not having work to do if we took a long lunch. When we finally found out what exactly it was that they wanted us to do every single one of us was ready to quit on the spot. We survived some heavy duty technical screening only to be asked to do a very junior level data sitting job. After a week we actually had desks and supervisors to call meetings to tell us they didn't know anything more but that we had to be at the meetings and when not at the meeting sitting blisfully at our desks. Desks without computers of course. In this case I think the lack of computers was in case we might think about doing work. I last 2 weeks before quiting. I believe few lasted out the month before becoming similerly disgusted. It was a career harming posistion that promised only boredom. Counting all the expenses Shell must have spent a $100,000 or more on us in the two weeks I was there and the hireing process. Which they of course imediately repeated as I know at least 3 others quit the same day I did, the rest were talking about it.

Top CEOs are people who've often never worked on the line ever. I remember the frstration felt at an industrial molding company I worked for in my early 20s. Rules would come down from up high that were impractical and a major hinderance to job peformance. Especially the neat and tidy kinds of rules that had employees scurrying about for more than half thier time trying to make everything look purty in case the big boss walked down and saw something not organized just right. Few if any of these rules made anything safer. Many did nothing to even improve cosmetics. I remember a few that were supposed to improve productivity but were made by people who'd never touched the line. They often crippled production. Since our jobs were tied to production we had the choice of breaking the rules and risking firing or adhering to the rules and risking firing.

So my key gripe about our economy is the lack of touch between the upper administration and the people actually doing the work. This lack of commonality makes it easy to lay off workers then give a CEO a raise. To make rules which make American production facilities uncompetitive. To take bribes from suppliers to put lower quality or even non-funcitonal equiptment on the line. To push safety rules until economic incentives force them to make life safer for workers. The common worker and even mid management is nothing but ink on paper to the upper execs today. These same execs have nothing vested in the company except to make a great quarter then jump ship to wreck another company.

No if nations like Brazil, Thailand, Venezuala and so on want prosperity it starts first by getting rid of corruption. You can never be completely rid of it. Politcians are like roaches. They sneak in no matter what you do. However the lower the corruption the better the economy. They need to dump idiots like Chavez who are going to destroy the economy long term. Get rid of the corruption, create an environment that allows people to succeed culturally, for example pushing a more nuclear family, higher education and strong work ethic and you'll see a huge economic improvement. Instead what you see is a weak work ethic. The harder you work in these nations just means you worked harder and may have possible negitive responses from your co-workers. If you gain something the Gov or extended family will be sure to drain it away. The corruption crushes start ups and keeps the focus on not how well you do a job but who you know. As long as that is the case the workmanship will be sloppy and the contracts unduely expensive.

Those are the only things holding them back. America isn't holding them back as so many in Latin America like to believe for example. They are holding themselves back.