tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post9052111816762114617..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Trade, and TradeoffsAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-35352801789619941342012-04-25T19:46:38.328-04:002012-04-25T19:46:38.328-04:00Texan99, the UN definitely wants to bite you. Teh...Texan99, the UN definitely wants to bite you. Teh rest of us, as well.Sam L.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-88090441314305103112012-04-22T08:31:21.401-04:002012-04-22T08:31:21.401-04:00True enough. It's an ugly thing to intervene ...True enough. It's an ugly thing to intervene only to install an even worse government.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-26047241807030334592012-04-21T21:42:05.309-04:002012-04-21T21:42:05.309-04:00To be fair, there were some times in South America...To be fair, there were some times in South America where the scuttlebutt is that US businesses managed to replace the local government. But I can't think of any recent cases.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-86885010854458588752012-04-21T19:58:22.933-04:002012-04-21T19:58:22.933-04:00It's always sad when the people living nearest...It's always sad when the people living nearest the valuable resources don't benefit much from their extraction. But the resources were never going to be valuable unless someone who knew how came and extracted them and put them to a use that the locals had no idea how to implement. And as you say, if the locals themselves don't share the wealth that the resources bring in, that's a problem with the local arrangement. It's very tempting to say we ought to do something about that, but we generally don't have the appetite to do that militarily. We're not interested in letting the locals emigrate en masse and join us here. We don't usually have any useful suggestions to make at all. I think it's just a way for people here to adopt cheap attitudes of superiority.<br /><br />As for the UN, it can bite me.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-1625870242514231472012-04-21T13:50:02.185-04:002012-04-21T13:50:02.185-04:00Another example of 20-20 tunnel-vision hindsight.Another example of 20-20 tunnel-vision hindsight.Sam L.noreply@blogger.com