is western wealth nothing but the blood of poorest of poor countries?

Answer 1

Take a look at some of the Asian and African wealth today, is it absolutely clean, spotless, and without a drop of the poor's blood? Why limit your question to the West, could it be bias?

Answer 2

Absolutely not. Most wealthy countries are that way because of an abundance of resources, plus investment of money and labour by the people of those countries.

Most poor countries lack resources.

As an example, the United States has an abundance of mineral wealth, vast areas of arable land, large numbers of people willing to invest their money into development, and millions of workers willing to sell their labour. Many American companies also have plants overseas and employ workers in those countries.

Poor countries usually lack resources or, if they have natural resources, do not have the political structure to allow for the development of those resources. One can look at Zimbabwe, which as a British colony produced an abundance of wheat and beef which were used to feed its own population as well as many neighboring countries.

Under its current regime, the productive land has been taken from its owners, the farmworkers expelled from the land, and the vast acreage allowed to remain useless. This has caused famine and political upheaval and many able bodied workers have left the country to work elsewhere.

Ireland, which suffered horrendously in the 1840's due to the potato famine, remained poor for many years but in the 1970s made a conscious effort to change its destiny by encouraging hitech companies to relocate there. Today, Ireland is a wealthy country.

Wealth is created by utilizing resources, both natural and intellectual. Western nations have been among the most successful because they have democratic political systems which allow their citizens the freedom to make choices that give them control over their own destinies. Countries such as Saudi Arabia are wealthy from oil but their political system (an absolute monarchy) limits the benefits of that wealth to a small percentage of the population.

Answer 3

Only to a very small extent. And even then, it's due to a few unscrupulous people, not Americans in general. Evidence: The average American was outraged to find out about child labor and foreign sweatshops. A huge amount of pressure was put on the companies to stop those kinds of practices.

Answer 4

Not necessarily. We're such a service-oriented economy that the majority of Western wealth is self-generated.

Answer 5

Not necessarily, it also could be said that it is the blood of the poorest in their own countries too.

Answer 6

capital, labour, resources

whose capital? western
whose labour? at least till recently..mostly western
whose resources? poor countries.

the chinese wealth isn't clean either
whose capital? mostly western
whose labour? chinese
whose resources? increasingly more african.

meh...it's a dogmatic question anyway.

Answer 7

quite lot of it...yeah