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Originally Posted by seshomaru samma  I live in a 3rd world country who is doing its best to become a developed country. This is not the first 3rd world country I lived in. I must agree with utabintarbo, that the roots of poverty lie within the countries themselves. I also suspect that there is a strong cultural factor that makes Western countries and Confucian countries especially good at making money. |
It isn't really the western culture. It's what they make, for example, a commodity such as tea doesn't make a lot of money compared to the manufactured goods such as computers. Let's say if tea prices slashed by half and computer prices slashed by half. You would probably rather get the computer than the tea. Tea can be replaced with any agricultural product and you can replace the manufactured goods with any manufactured good and you will probably see the same result.