cheese_of_the_world_unite on Yik Yak | tfw you “help” build up industrial capacity but then you make all of that industry owned by western corporations so literally none of the profits from those development projects go towards the locals and then wonder why the locals aren’t well off

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cheese_of_the_world_unite

tfw you “help” build up industrial capacity but then you make all of that industry owned by western corporations so literally none of the profits from those development projects go towards the locals and then wonder why the locals aren’t well off

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For example, Nigeria is super rich in oil, so the British “helped” them with oil drilling technology, except they have to sell all that oil to Shell, a British company, for a massively discounted rate. It’s not actual investment, it’s colonialism by another name.

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