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Originally posted by Flame Of Liberty@Jun 10 2005, 01:58 AM
This isn’t about wealth transfer. It is about wealth creation. 3rd world does not need your charity gifts as much as it needsfree economic environment. Only then those people will be able to produce their own food, build their shelter, in short – improve their lives. You know the saying, give the poor man a fish; you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish; you will feed him for the rest of his life.
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Sure, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a life time. That may have been true four hundred years ago. Now, it's a little more complicated, and in general, it's not convincing to argue using cliches.
Besides, we aren't teaching the third world how to fish. We're lending them a fishing pole, giving them 12 cents an hour, and saying, fish, and give us what you catch. We're not teaching them how to fish. It's not in our interest to teach them how to fish, because we want their fish.
Capitalism always acts in its own best interest. There is no interest in capitalism to stimulate third-world markets, there is interest to EXPLOIT them and take the resources for its own good. If we help Vietnam develop its own industries and resources, how does that help us? It doesn't. Consequently, because they are so poor we can give them the "choice" of starving or working for pennies a day and then reap the benefits of their labor.
Not acknowledging these facts is just stubborn adherence to dogma.