[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.