"Do you really think we can afford to have the developing world develop? You think we could have survived the rise of a modern, articulated Chinese superpower twenty years ago? You think we could manage an Africa full of countries run by intelligent, uncorrupted democrats? Or a Latin America run by men like Barranco? Just imagine it for a moment. Whole populations getting educated, and healthy, and secure, and aspirational. Women's rights, for Christ's sake. We can't afford these things to happen, Chris. Who's going to soak up our subsidized food surplus for us? Who's going to make our shoes and shirts? Who's going to store our nuclear waste, balance out our CO2 misdemeanors? Who's going to buy our arms?" .......... --- Richard K. Morgan in Market forces.
I read that today, made me think, I thought I'd share.
I read that today, made me think, I thought I'd share.