Subsidies and Free Trade are the primary ways insatiable corporate greed destroys the economies of developing nations.
Here's how it works.
A subsidy is a money incentive from the government to do or produce something. As corporations control the government (thru lobbying and holding positions of power), they simply give themselves taxpayer money to keep doing what they do.
This offsets the price of production soooo much that, were they to sell their goods somewhere without equivalent subsidies, they could charge less than the cost of producing the thing there. At this point it becomes profitable to impose a removal of trade barriers for the region however they can.
Farmers can no longer sell their crops because they are too expensive. The area falls into poverty as the wealth gets drained out.
The publically promoted approach is charity, but that doesn't actually solve anything. Any wealth that goes in still gets unstoppably drained out as corporate interests gain stronger and stronger holds on the region.
I personally think subsidies can be useful if placed intelligently. But at the whim of competitive corporate capitalism, they are evil. And here's a question for you: how often have YOU had a choice in what the government allocates money to? You don't. The corporations receiving the money are the ones who choose.
With corporate interests being so amorally focused on profit, is that really ok?
Seems totally ridiculous to me.
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