• SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Here’s how capitalism actually works in the third world, as someone who has actually worked in a field where I traveled to the third world for business

    1: companies invest in local communities that have little inside economic opportunity

    2: workers there are paid well above what others are, because the local currency has a shitty exchange rate

    3: those people then become locally wealthy and contribute to the growth of businesses, institutions, and infrastructure that improves the nation’s economy as a whole

    You see someone getting paid $10.00/day and I see someone making 5x what their neighbors make, because a US dollar is worth 20x (or more) their currency.