Is the world getting better, getting worse, staying the same, or indeterminate?

[giblets]

Nigeria has the highest GDP in Africa and 21st in the world.

They only have the 7th largest population on Earth.

[Kidlicious]

You've made some ridiculous statements about why the third world is poor. You deserve to be called out on those.

That's not what you did. You accused me of being ungrateful.

[kentonio]

...and yet, they still have people getting burned alive tapping pipelines.

Meanwhile Quatar functions on the back of an immigrant class who are largely treated like slaves, and die in large numbers with little or no legal protections.

[kentonio]

That's not what you did. You accused me of being ungrateful.

Go back and re-read the thread ffs.

[The Mad Monk]

Meanwhile Quatar functions on the back of an immigrant class who are largely treated like slaves, and die in large numbers with little or no legal protections.

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So instead of my two bad examples to the one good example, we have three bad examples?

[Kidlicious]

Go back and re-read the thread ffs.

For your irrelevant bs?

[giblets]

Meanwhile Quatar functions on the back of an immigrant class who are largely treated like slaves, and die in large numbers with little or no legal protections.

Qatar would still have a high gdp per capita if they didn't treat their immigrants like slaves, they just wouldn't be able to concentrate as much oil wealth in the hands of natives.

[Kidlicious]

Meanwhile Quatar functions on the back of an immigrant class who are largely treated like slaves, and die in large numbers with little or no legal protections.

If they save money they can invest in labor saving technology.

[kentonio]

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So instead of my two bad examples to the one good example, we have three bad examples?

Yep.

[giblets]

If they save money they can invest in labor saving technology.

I'm sure they would invest in labor saving technology if they didn't have cheap immigrant labor.

[Thoth]

I'm sure they would invest in labor saving technology if they didn't have cheap immigrant labor.

Cheap slaves: the original labour saving technology.