• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    The other side of that debate is that … the outside influence could work with Africa to make the continent self sufficient and capable on its own. Several studies and research has shown that if properly set up and organized, the African continent has more than enough resources to produce its own food supply, clean water supply and energy production.

    Unfortunately, instead of the outside world helping Africa to get to this point … the world instead uses Africa as just another place to exploit and make money out of. In the short sighted vision of the first world … it’s more lucrative to make a bunch of money now by taking advantage of poor dying people than it is to help them become productive members of the global economy.

    It’s a prime example of how as a civilization we build and maintain our world on exploitation, coercion and death

    • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Nation States are just another tool of the powerful to subjugate, a means to keep us divided as if we weren’t the same species.

      Instead we see being a united species as some evil conspiracy, which is why I’m not really a fan of our species anymore. We’d rather have a chance of beating our fellow man than equitably sharing the fruits of this world. We don’t love the person on the other side of the table, we want to screw them and get more. That disgusts me, personally.