So, we’ve rather a large number of people in this country who keep telling us that community, local interaction, webs of social exchange rather than global markets, make us all much richer in a truly real sense (hey, pick your favourite idiot that does in fact argue this) than these mere physical belongings which filthy lucre brings us. You know, food, shelter, clothing and the like.
We’re also told, by those very same people often enough, that people living in those African villages have the “community, local interaction, webs of social exchange rather than global markets” coming out of their ears and that they are, in a truly real sense, much richer than we are.
So, why are we sending them aid instead of they sending it to us?
4 responses so far ↓
1 Serf // Oct 11, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Seeing as their richness lies in their human capital, I rather think they are sending us aid
2 Surreptitious Evil // Oct 11, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Because, despite Serf’s accurate observation, our riches are fundamentally more portable?
3 john malpas // Oct 12, 2010 at 1:37 am
Is this not just a justification for importing half of africa into the UK and Europe.
4 Tim Newman // Oct 12, 2010 at 11:18 am
So, why are we sending them aid instead of they sending it to us?
I’ll modestly assume this refers to my mobilisation to Nigeria tomorrow.
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