Economics and Exploitation
While that yeah, money is what makes this world go round, politically speaking, wouldn't a step towards progress be universally agreeing to the idea that it is indeed economic incentive that leads and has historically led the world in exploitation of a vast number of countries?
I mean, while idealistic in nature, people ranging from grass-roots movements to even the Ralph Nader's, Ron Paul's, and Mike Gravel's of the world could agree and concert their efforts on the fact that yes, while some policies (fully known or unknown in its extent to the public) do give advantage to the economy, it is at the cost of denying the humanity of others in the developing world.
Even countries that have gotten "ahead" like Soviet Russia and China, where the suffering of people has resulted in massive improvements in development like technology, agriculture, logistics and such, it is clear what it is at the cost of. Their own people's human value.
Other countries, the West specifically, do not have the same kind of systems in which they can improve at the cost of their own people but must look outward, like Africa or Latin America, to exploit the peoples there in order for their own ideas of a fruitful, powerful nation to be realized.
To me, self-preservation of the government is consistent in nations that do not have the fully developed systems that ensure accountability and ultimately, a government responsible to its people. In countries that do have these systems, it requires the predatory outlook in order to maintain not the government, but the idea of this government to work in that particular country.
Remember, for someone to thrive, someone must suffer. And universally, in order to maintain power, more must be grabbed.
Refute or prove it, just a thought of mine.
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