thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 16
th, 2024 at 11:20am:
aquascoot wrote on Feb 16
th, 2024 at 9:46am:
yeah , i under estimated
Your most egregious error - like the government's - is your commitment to mainstream neoliberal economics with its 'continuous growth' mantra (eg you need more workers to pay for the pensions of retired workers bs)
While at the global level entire states are failing, as they can't compete in the global neoliberal 'free-market'.
Sudanese should be prospering in their own country, but the US stooge, the IMF (Instant Misery Fund) is in charge of international money flows.
Sudan is at 156 on the IMF's list of GDP per capita. South Sudan sits at 189. For all the good that their mining industries do for South Sudan, the country is heavily reliant on agricultural exports. That said, the South Sudanese would have to take advantage of their oil exports to prosper.
In terms of "neoliberal 'free market'", any refugee would be not thinking in terms of international trade of goods. They would be thinking in terms of where can I sleep tonight and have something to eat. Those that hop on a plane and head to the outskirts of Europe or Australasia, and then take a boat to the prosperous first world countries are nothing but country shoppers.
Those "refugees" that do get asylum in places like Europe and Australasia and then go about committing violent crimes, they are not showing gratitude for being brought to safety. May people would say that they were part of the cause of their former homelands failing.