[hfjfktkrkf]

Just imagine govmts auctioning vaccines. That's how you start a revolution.

And isn't the point of govs to take care of their own people? Otherwise rich countries should right now start spending their money on solving poor countries issues, like lack of a working healthcare system.

[xiphias2]

The reason why those poor countries are poor is because of those rich countries. What you're describing is tribalism.

I hate so see how US looks at the wars it is fighting: it doesn't matter that they kill 100000 people, but the 100 Americans that died are so much more important just because they were born in a rich country.

We are all on the same planet together, and tribalism is already stopping us from limiting ourselves from using more resources that the planet can provide.

[quonn]

> The reason why those poor countries are poor is because of those rich countries.

Having spent a considerable length of time in some of those countries, some of it volunteering, I seriously doubt this is true in general.

It‘s typically a problem of productivity (producing low value goods), corruption, education, technology transfer, culture and so on.

It would be nice to have a simple unifying theory but I doubt it exists.

[hfjfktkrkf]

Scale matters. Let me quote Taleb:

> I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist.

What he meant is that while communism works in a family because the incentives are aligned, it doesn't work at society level.