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Yeah, so it’s mostly fault of those countries having very poor leadership that is not capable of protecting their citizens.
There are several countries that were rather undeveloped but managed to overcome this, for example South Korea, Taiwan or UAE.
"Do as we say or we will kill you"
If you want to continue blaming the victims, well, I cannot help you.
I do not know how their governments are victims. They are either incapable or enjoy abusing their citizens.
However, that’s again not fault of the west that people in the middle east/africa/north korea have abusive or incompetent governments.
I feel like you did not read a word I wrote...
Let's just end this here. You're either unwilling or incapable of comprehending.
I indeed read what you wrote. Your argument is that western countries abuse the other ones. However, how it is then possible that some countries are not abused (for example, where I live governments would not allow chile labor) at all and managed to grow and succeed despite having problems in the past?
Which country are we talking about? If you aren't willing to reveal it, then why not look it up yourself?
I am talking about slovakia. Desptive having absolutely horrible governments now, as well as in the past, none of them pushed for child labor
Bro, I thought you were going to say India or something. Slovakia? That's a Western country!
It has barely anything noteworthy in the ground to subjugate the populate over. Your country isn't blessed/cursed by resources.
source
They got a helping hand to get into the Euro-zone, which is of course a huge motivation get your country on track. And of course a fellow western power would have little reason to fuck the the country up.
It's part of the EU, for crying out loud. It has access to large markets with no tolls, money can be transferred between it and the rest of the EU for nothing (compared to remittance transferred outside of the EU to Asian, South American, and African countries). The unemployment dropped from ~20% in 1999 (pre-EU) to ~5% (2019).
To sum up
Do you truly believe those factors have nothing to do with its current state?
We would be lost without European Union and it surely helps us a lot.
Question is why something like EU does not exist in Africa/Other poor areas.
I refer to you what I wrote above.
Read the whole exchange, thank you for your comments