• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I mean, the Marshall Plan was kind of a good thing. Rebuilding Japan and the half of South Korea we hadn’t completely flattened a good thing.

    But are we talking about developing enormous new blocks of housing, schooling, transport, and hospitalization in these countries? Or is Target just expanding the sweatshops?

    Imagine the North coming in after the Civil War and building more plantations…

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Oh, if they proposed something like the Marshall Plan I’d be fucking pleased.

      This is just convincing US companies to take advantage of the cheap labor, as if they really needed that much convincing.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Labor is cheaper overseas. The Philippines, Indonesia, and Bangladesh have people working in what amount to little more than slave camps. Latin American governments struggle harder to keep their populations in line, as evidenced by socialist uprisings in Nicaragua, Cuba, Bolivia, and Venezuela.

        • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I think we’re in agreement. “Kamala leads a 4.5 gagillion dollars in private investment in central america” might as well read “American companies exploit central-American destabilization by securing their cheap labor”

          It’s not a policy we should be celebrating as a success.

          as evidenced by socialist uprisings in Nicaragua, Cuba, Bolivia, and Venezuela

          What a crazy coincidence that the policy in question specifically excluded Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela lol