An “economist” on reddit with a room temperature IQ? No way.
• “uh my tap water doesn’t taste good”
• “SO YOU’RE SAYING IT’S BETTER TO HAVE NO WATER AT ALL??? DEBUNKED AHAH”
As a proud settler I only believe in crackernomics
I genuinely can’t follow this person’s logic at all
It’s because this person is a moron.
They have no understanding of imperialism. The paper they are criticising is about unequal exchange in trade between global north and south countries. They think how anti-imperialists claim imperialism works is something like this: global south country harvests its natural resources to create wealth. This wealth then gets appropriated by the global north through unfair trade dealings.
So they posit that if global south countries just didn’t trade with the global north, they could just keep their wealth and prosper. So sanctioned countries would actually get wealthier compared to non-sanctioned countries. Since this is obviously not true, (their strawman of) imperialism has been debunked.
oh, that makes more “sense”
Rejecting the concept of imperialism immediately discredits whatever you say especially in the topic of economics.
If exploitation causes poverty, shouldn’t unemployed be rich? Checkmate tankies
“this global south nonsense”.
Does he not think those countries exist? Or does he disagree with the term, which goes back to at least the 60s as far as I am aware, he makes it sound like some kind of new communist propaganda.
as a patriotic Kiwi I have no truck with this “Global South” nonsense
No, he’s just racist and wants more settler colonies lol
