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Because Greed isn't good
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:icontheubbergeek2:
I have seen the famous 'Encerclement" documentary and agrees.
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:icondravazed:
Tweeted this. Great idea/design. Thanks.
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*Laghing-rabt Oct 10, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Neo-liberalism, when forced upon a developing country by a developed one, might as well be called colonialism. The same thing is accomplished, the economy is dominated by said developed country. Basically the relationship between most of Latin America and the U.S.
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:iconnurizin:
Actually, Africa suffered a lot from this nas well in the 80's, with these bloody "structural adjustment" programs.
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*Laghing-rabt Oct 11, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Latin America is just a little closer to home for me so to speak. I know more people who lived in those countries than the ones in Africa.
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:iconnurizin:
Sure, was just to precise that the IMF did the same with the rest of the world. We quite saw it in depth last year in one of my course at university, with a teacher who worked at lot in Africa, so, the concrete examples I've in head are from this continent.
Quite ironically, it's now the turn to European people to slowly fall under the same neoliberal tyranny, Greece being the first victim for now. It it continues that way, Europeans will live in conditions similar to countries in the third world who are under the iron fist of IMF, WTO and World Bank. Except that here we're atttacked by our own organisations : UE and European Bank.
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*Laghing-rabt Oct 12, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
The IMF also did it to Poland following Solidarność's sort of revolution. If it wasn't for that, Poland would have likely stayed a socialist country, just independent from the soviet Union. South Africa might have become a socialist country too, if it wasn't for the IMF.

what's happening in the post-industrial countries is that because enough foreign markets are opened up now, large global corporations don't need any kind of strong middle class to keep demand high. So now, the goal isn't so much to further open markets, but to completely suppress anything coming out of the middle class. And when you have corporations that powerful, they can easily control our own governing institutions.
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:iconsonrouge:
Greed isn't good?

Funny coming from someone who wants what other people produce.
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*Laghing-rabt Oct 10, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
getting something someone else produced? you mean profit?
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:iconnuminiousnihil:
I think we need to clarify words here. Acquiring what is produced by someone else is not the definition of profit. If I make a purchase, i'm exchanging currency for something that someone else produced. The other party is said to gain by the exchange, but I did not produce the currency.

By produce I mean create by my own skill and craft.

Even if I trade an item with someone, a shovel for a bedside stand for example. I might not have produced the shovel, and the other party might not have produced the stand, but we both profit from the exchange.
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