Why the developing world is stagnating

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[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The land and climate everywhere is not suited to growing large amounts of food cost and effort effectively.

"Cost effective" is a relative term. What is the value of life that you don't think their lives are worth the cost of farming? Is it all life you find so worthless or just residents of the third world.

You make a compeling argument though, if they cant feed themselves perhaps they should starve.

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Obviously it's not a plant, but Brazilians can barely afford beef, they raise it mostly for the US. They produce food they cannot afford to eat themselves. Unless you're talking about nationalizing food production, this is an issue.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They export the beef because they rather have iphones and nikes than beef for dinner.

If the country developed a better agriculture sector the animal feed would be cheaper, the cost of living would be lower, and they would have enough beef to export and eat.

Their output is low because they run everything poorly. Every single thing is effected, and in turn effects the next thing down the line. Bad water processing makes water expensive. Price gouging makes fuel expensive, that makes the poor farming effort even worse than it would have been. That makes domestic grain expensive. Imported grain gets terrifed because government corruption. And on and on. All of those factors scale with IQ.

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They export the beef because they rather have iphones and nikes than beef for dinner.

The beef prices in Brazil are the same as the US, but the average Brazilian earns $3/hr. They eat a lot of beans. Also, the phone market is dominated by Samsung and Xiaomi android phones. The admittedly few Brazilians I have spoked too had older or value priced phones, not flagship models too. Can't speak to the footwear, although sneakerheads are fucking weird.