I thought bill gates cured poverty in Africa because he’s such a nice guy.
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Rooskie91@discuss.online 6 days agoWe live in an economically connected world. An argument can be made that they’re forced to subsistence farm in a backbreaking and cruel way due to the natural resources of their country extracted by oligarchs that don’t even live in Africa.
Wherever poverty exists, rich people are involved by their sheer unwillness to share enough to meet everyone’s basic needs.
jaybone@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 days ago
Pretty sure you’re thinking of AIDS, not poverty.
hansolo@lemm.ee 6 days ago
That really isn’t the case for large parts of rural Sub-Sahan Africa. For literally millions of people, they are growing crops basically about the same as their ancestors, in the same area. Maybe now they have mobile phones. It was ALWAYS hard labor.
Is everyone in this thread rich American college kids or something? Why do you all think the natural state of the world is Utopian paradise where leopards and impallas are best friends?
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Because we had the technology and the money to create that world back in the 90’s. Now we’ve got twice as much money and twice as good tech in the world and yet 95% of people still have to fight for their survival. This could be a reality if it weren’t for hoarders.