You want to know why returning a profit from trade counts as theft.
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You want to know why returning a profit from trade counts as theft.
It doesn't, automatically.
What counts as theft is the specific sequence:
Spend a century prohibiting industrialization in your colony, ensuring it can only export raw materials.
Extract the capital that would have funded industrial development.
At independence, lend the now-structurally-dependent country money at commercial rates.
Attach conditions that maintain the raw-material-exporter structure.
Extract profits from that structure at scale.
Return one-tenth as aid, with photographers.
Call yourself a development partner.
The coin is not stolen because profit is theft.
The coin is stolen because it came from a pocket that was emptied by the person tossing it back.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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