While colonialism would indeed improve the lives of the colonized, it's not worth it to the colonizer. Colonies were a net resource sink done for prestige and because some elites were enriched by it (usually the expense of the rest of the host country). I don't think trying to rule these countries is the best use of the kind of talent …
While colonialism would indeed improve the lives of the colonized, it's not worth it to the colonizer. Colonies were a net resource sink done for prestige and because some elites were enriched by it (usually the expense of the rest of the host country). I don't think trying to rule these countries is the best use of the kind of talent that could pull it off.
The White Man's Burden had its chance and has been relegated to the dustbin of history.
Anyway, for Hive Mind genetic reasons, the third world can never be made into a decent place to live.
It's not clear they can even work in China Style Factories. The Chinese have an average IQ of 105. There is a reason China took off and not say India.
The US Army cutoff for allowing someone to enlist is 83. Below that you're so useless you can't even add value by digging a ditch or catching a bullet. That's a huge swath of the third world. In an example used above, Pakistan, its say half the population. And it's not like being 85 or 88 IQ is a vast improvement. Its subsistence farming for these peope. There is no potential to unlock.
I agree that "helping them over there" is a vast improvement over bringing them here. Providing basic services to them over there costs a tiny % of what it does to do so once they are hooked up to our welfare states. Also they can't vote in our elections over there.
But really I just think that people should focus on advancing the advanced civilizations. That's how things trickle down. Even the global poor get to benefit from antibiotics and the rest. If you keep trying to grow the economy and solve problems it will eventually benefit everyone. Perhaps one day in the future the first world will even fix their deficient genetics.
The worst thing that could happen to the global poor is that they immigrate here, wreck the first world, the entire global economy and scientific progress collapse, and their fate along with it.
While colonialism would indeed improve the lives of the colonized, it's not worth it to the colonizer. Colonies were a net resource sink done for prestige and because some elites were enriched by it (usually the expense of the rest of the host country). I don't think trying to rule these countries is the best use of the kind of talent that could pull it off.
The White Man's Burden had its chance and has been relegated to the dustbin of history.
Anyway, for Hive Mind genetic reasons, the third world can never be made into a decent place to live.
It's not clear they can even work in China Style Factories. The Chinese have an average IQ of 105. There is a reason China took off and not say India.
The US Army cutoff for allowing someone to enlist is 83. Below that you're so useless you can't even add value by digging a ditch or catching a bullet. That's a huge swath of the third world. In an example used above, Pakistan, its say half the population. And it's not like being 85 or 88 IQ is a vast improvement. Its subsistence farming for these peope. There is no potential to unlock.
I agree that "helping them over there" is a vast improvement over bringing them here. Providing basic services to them over there costs a tiny % of what it does to do so once they are hooked up to our welfare states. Also they can't vote in our elections over there.
But really I just think that people should focus on advancing the advanced civilizations. That's how things trickle down. Even the global poor get to benefit from antibiotics and the rest. If you keep trying to grow the economy and solve problems it will eventually benefit everyone. Perhaps one day in the future the first world will even fix their deficient genetics.
The worst thing that could happen to the global poor is that they immigrate here, wreck the first world, the entire global economy and scientific progress collapse, and their fate along with it.