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Engineering majors need like 4 years of pure humanities classes to fix what's wrong in their mind. This whole thread is so cruel to op.

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 71 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Problem with the third world is, anybody who can make their society any better chooses not to and instead try to move to western countries and do engineering jobs there.

hitler-detector

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We could fix this problem by simply paying third world workers the same as first world workers so they have no economic incentive to leave their homeland... oh wait, that would require putting an end to imperialism and neo-colonialism. I wonder why that isn't happening?

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Low-key I do wonder if work from home stuff would result in this in the end. It's definitely a contradiction at least

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imperialism keeps the periphery underdeveloped and overexploited through various methods so that the wage disparity can continue regardless of the material conditions in the imperial core. For example, if a nation in the periphery were to build their own factories and begin to outproduce the imperial core... they would get bombed... and regime changed... and comprador puppets would be put into power... and those puppets would take out IMF loans... with prerequisite privatization and anti-union measure... and then the core would do direct foreign investment so that the natural resources and infrastructure would be owned by them instead of the locals. That's an extreme example. It doesn't always happen exactly that way, but if enough of those boxes get checked, the imperial core can force wages down in the periphery, and continue to use them as a source of cheap labor.

I don't know if mass adoption of Work From Home would be enough to reverse that. The 1st world has their thumb on the scale big time.

[–] LenonLemonLenin@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

There was one really good reply to that comment

Anyone who tries to make it any better is typically labeled an enemy by the west.

These places are treated like resource extraction sites for the "first world". If they try to nationalize the literal or figurative gold mines, bam coup'd. They're called a dictator, a commie, a rogue state.

Your take right here really shows how ingrained racism can be. Its always an individual responsibility problem, never a systemic problem. It's not OPs fault for wanting to live outside of a warzone. It sounds like she's already literally a refugee and your first response is "stay there".

Engineering majors need more humanities courses.

[–] Galli@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

From the makers of

individuals acting in their own individual best interests within a market creates the best outcome for society as a whole

and

landlords are good because renting allows renters flexibility to move to where they can receive a greater income without being tied down by home ownership

prepare yourself for the all new big brain logic of

your country is poor because people keep acting in their own best interests by moving to where they can receive a greater income