I wasn’t trying to make it sound like the British or the Americans are the poorest people in the world, my bad if I gave that impression. You’re right that those countries benefit from imperialist plunder and that the global south is deprived because of that theft.
And not to make this a poverty competition, but the poorest people in the core aren’t living under a roof at all. Capitalism is unequal so not everyone shares the spoils of their country’s exploitation, which was what I was getting at. Just because a capitalist country has good stats doesn’t mean its people live well.
I wasn’t trying to make it sound like the British or the Americans are the poorest people in the world, my bad if I gave that impression. You’re right that those countries benefit from imperialist plunder and that the global south is deprived because of that theft.
And not to make this a poverty competition, but the poorest people in the core aren’t living under a roof at all. Capitalism is unequal so not everyone shares the spoils of their country’s exploitation, which was what I was getting at. Just because a capitalist country has good stats doesn’t mean its people live well.