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John
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Also, I think that unless we get over our current economic model which promotes unchecked exploitation, we will be bombed back to the stone age by those we are exploiting long before we get to the stars. Which suggests, since Humans are adaptible, that we will choose a more sustainable economic model... or at least one which isn't so liable to generate violent opposition.
Hmm, the US and rest of the West trades lot with places like South Korea and Japan, both of whom were very impoverished after World War II (South Korea was definitely poorer than the Middle East or most of Africa), and they're now wealthy. Meanwhile, the poorest countries are precisely those whom the "current economic model" doesn't interact with at all, like North Korea or Cuba, or the African nations. (Exploitation? There's barely any trade one way or the other with the African nations. We're perhaps guilty of ignoring Africa, not exploiting it.)
Your hypothesis makes no sense at all, since the more the current economic model interacts with another country, the wealthier it is. The poor countries aren't exploited, they're ignored. Furthermore, one could point out that most of the current bombers are middle class or well off in their own countries. The opposition mainly stems from violent cultural rejection of modern culture (with the violence and the sex and the booze and the homosexuality and the other fun stuff) combined with the belief in dramatically ignorant economic views like yours.
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Death 999
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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WELLL... note that the Africans aren't the ones bombing us. It's the people whose resources we're pillaging, thus funding the usually corrupt landowning elites without bringing in any significant investment in the nations themselves.
btw nice flameage with the "dramatically ignorant economic views"
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