[stelonix]

This, precisely. Basically, suffering and low-HDI is exported to developing nations, just like pollution was exported by moving manufacturing to these places. Since big players do not have to abide by international law and can pretend to care about human rights through virtue-signaling, we have whole continents with gargantuan inequalities. Any attempt by these abused nations to get together, be it through free-trade or other agreements, will be attacked by the elites in developed nations, either through their foreign policies (economic warfare) or under the hood by espionage/sabotage.