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Hell on Earth

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Dead Man’s Market and the Boy Gangs of Niger – Foreign Policy

An article about the absolute hell that financial capital has caused in Niger with its plunder. Cities are given to gangs, young people kill each other with machetes. There is no one celebrating the birth of a child. They celebrate if they live to be a year old. And not everyone survives...
If there were no Russia, the same thing would happen in the entire post-soviet space. Ukraine is an example.
Capitalism cannot reduce poverty everywhere. It can only rob in one place more to create the appearance of well-being in the "oases". And engage in shameless cheating of all their statistics. Niger shows what a significant part of capitalism looks like. Hell on earth
 
Ukraine is not Nigeria!


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Dead Man’s Market and the Boy Gangs of Niger – Foreign Policy

An article about the absolute hell that financial capital has caused in Niger with its plunder. Cities are given to gangs, young people kill each other with machetes. There is no one celebrating the birth of a child. They celebrate if they live to be a year old. And not everyone survives...
If there were no Russia, the same thing would happen in the entire post-soviet space. Ukraine is an example.
Capitalism cannot reduce poverty everywhere. It can only rob in one place more to create the appearance of well-being in the "oases". And engage in shameless cheating of all their statistics. Niger shows what a significant part of capitalism looks like. Hell on earth

You haven't explained what capitalism has to do with Niger. You made a few accusations but presented no evidence and made no attempt to support the claims you made. But, if you don't like capitalism, why not donate all your money to Niger and then move there.
 
But, if you don't like capitalism, why not and then move there.

Because there is one of the most disgusting manifestations of capitalism and not the only one.

"Chocolate Paradise."

....In fact, this is, of course, not a story at all, but a very superficial analysis of a particular case of admiration of western capitalism. If you take statistics by country, the Netherlands buys the most cocoa beans – about 20 percent of the total crop. Taken as a whole, 70 percent of the world's cocoa crop goes to four multinational companies: American Hershey Foods, English Cadbury Shweppes and Swiss Nestle and Interfoods.
So, we will not touch the world's cocoa bean crop. We have West Africa, which produces 70-80 percent of cocoa beans, with a large mass of them coming from a country like Cote d'lvoire (about a third of the world's cocoa beans), and about the same amount together Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon. Almost all of their crops go to Europe (the Netherlands, Germany, and France), the United States, and Japan.
The ratio is clear, right? Wonderful chocolate for 13 euros a box, produced in Europe, is made from cocoa beans grown in the sultry hot Africa. More precisely-in the West Africa. To be more precise, let's limit ourselves to the Republic of Cote-d’Ivoire.

I'm not going to talk about a lot of things right now.

I will not talk about the level of infant and child mortality in this country…

About its place in the rating of AIDS infection…

That the export of cocoa beans gives it a quarter of GDP…

That former President Laurent Gbagbo recklessly announced plans to nationalize cocoa exports and was immediately deposed by French special forces with the permission of the UN security Council, and sent to the Hague…

About the fact that the chair of the President of the Cote-d’Ivoire was occupied by an official of the IMF, Alassane Ouattara, who immediately imposed an embargo on the export of cocoa beans, which provoked an unprecedented increase in prices on the stock exchange…
That, according to the Financial Times, on the eve of this crisis, someone from the market bought up 7 percent of the world's cocoa bean stocks and concluded a huge number of futures and options contracts, receiving fabulous profits after the Ouattara embargo…

That the largest volumes of this product are traded on the London futures exchange (LIFFE) and the new York coffee, sugar and cocoa exchange (CSCE) That the situation with Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon is about the same as with Cote d'lvoire, and sometimes even worse.

After all, the "Chocolate Paradise" sketch is not about child mortality, sudden UN sanctions, or stock market intrigue. It is just about wonderful sweets from Europe, at 13 euros per box. Therefore, I will not talk about what I will not talk about, but will ask the most common question of pricing: what is the cost value of cocoa beans produced in the Republic of Cote d'lvoire ?
But there is no such data...
For example, it is known that on the eve of the coup in Cote-d’lvoire, cocoa beans cost $ 1,800 a ton, and then-rose in price to 3,200 in new York, and to almost 3,400-in London. But how much a ton cost the freedom-loving people of the Cote d'lvoire – only the democratically victorious President Alassane Ouattara knows about this, but who will ask him?
We get dirty slander that a ton of cocoa beans costs the freedom-loving people of the Cote d'lvoire not very expensive. In view of the widespread practice of slave labor on the plantations there. And in general, this work is seasonal (the crop of cocoa beans is collected twice a year), and the hired negro getting about 15-20 dollars per season, or something like that.
About the same amount, that is, how much a box of wonderful chocolate from Europe costs at the airport in the city of Brussels, for example. Or in a supermarket in the city of Hanover, for example. Or in a shop in Berlin, for example. Or in a cozy Madrid shop, for example…

Having told all this to the europeans, who sincerely do not wish anyone harm, I ask them: are you ready for the fact that the standard of living in the Republic of Cote d'lvoire, become, well, at least for some foreseeable distance, closer to yours? It won't be like that, no – let's be realistic. It just gets closer. Not twenty dollars a season for these poor negroes, the fathers of starving children, but a hundred! A hundred, twice a year! And exports will be managed by the state, not by multinational companies and IMF officials. And it will set its own purchasing prices based on the needs of the economy, in order to develop medicine and education, to establish and pump new industries, and introduce new technologies.
 
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Are you ready, in short, for the fact that the cost of cocoa beans on the world market will increase by at least an order of magnitude? Are you ready for the fact that the chocolate bar that you are now lazily fanning with your eyes, standing in a compact queue at the checkout, after all this, you will only be able to afford on big holidays, like Beluga caviar? And you, women, visiting Europe - are you ready for the fact that as a souvenir you will bring from there not a box of sweets, worth 200 euros, but a thickly greased with vegetable oil swine dick?

No, they are usually not ready. As a rule, they say in response to this, that I exaggerate.Oh yes! But if you do not exaggerate, then you need to take into account the structure of all european imports. And ask boring, but substantive questions. How are, for example, in the countries that supply Europe with the most ordinary rice, things going with the standard of living? Or, producers of cotton for Europe, how do they feel over there? What about other raw materials producers? And so on.
In general, the question is not whether Europe is beginning to understand something. The question is, how does the noble desire of ordinary Europeans not to cause harm relate to their ability not to cause harm, which is strictly limited by a completely ordinary and even imperceptible habit of nice european comfort?

There is an opinion that, being put before the fact, white and fluffy europeans will suddenly stop wanting to "understand or empathize ».
And not just europeans. Rich "correct" capitalism has always been based on the sweat and blood of both its own and foreign slaves. Evaluate the fact: 26 people own half of the world's wealth, and 70% live below the poverty line. To believe that representatives of the "correctt" capitalism will allow everyone to get out of poverty, this is to believe in unicorns and fairies.
 
Of course not. Capitalism only reduces poverty where it's applied. In socialist countries they are still poor.

In 7 years, the USSR completely restored the housing stock and the base of the Black sea navy of Sevastopol, which was destroyed by 95% during the war. Clearing and clearing debris from mines. And the same was all over half of the country.

The authorities of Sevastopol in the capitalist Russian Federation for 6.5 years, since 2014 could not solve problems with water supply and sewerage.

Socialism is not effective, they tell us!

The whole absurdity of anti-sovietism is that the shortage of goods is passed off as "the failure of communism", and mass unemployment, impoverishment and obscurantism – as the failure of people, who have nothing to do with capitalism.
 
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Half the world's workers face losing their jobs, says ILO | News | Al Jazeera

There are 7.8 billion people in the world.
There are 3.3 billion in the global workforce.
Of those, 2 billion work in the "informal economy".
And 1.6 billion are about to lose their jobs.

Actually, it is even worse. The oil painting is like this- Capital no longer needs up to half the world's workforce, that's the minimum. Bolivar can't take two anymore.
 
If capitalism is so effective, why does it need child labor? Why does it need migrant labor? Why would it want half-starved people in the mines and on the plantations? Why these factories in Asia, where poor people sit in cramped rooms and bend their backs for pennies? Why do mexicans working on producing cars even for "effective" Musk?
 
If capitalism is so effective, why does it need child labor? Why does it need migrant labor? Why would it want half-starved people in the mines and on the plantations? Why these factories in Asia, where poor people sit in cramped rooms and bend their backs for pennies? Why do mexicans working on producing cars even for "effective" Musk?

First of all Capitalism really just means the exchange of goods for cash (money). Labor is Capital. Goods are Capital, Raw goods are Capital and so on and so forth. Any notion that Capitalism equates an economic style is hogwash. Communist said private ownership is bad and defined that as Capitalism.. but what did they do? Still used money as a exchange of goods. You still worked and still had to pay for shit. The difference was the State said it'll decided what you needed. So while people in the Soviet Union waited years for cars that were utter crap. Like the Trabant. Consumerism dictated the market in what you call Capitalism.
 
30 years later, it becomes clear that communism was dragging fundamental science, defining social policy, culture, and preserving peace in dozens of countries. Together with its destruction, the world smoothly returns to the past – to working poverty, crises, obscurantism, wars, fascism.
 

This is what provides the $ 530 billion "beauty" industry...
For the" successful " in capitalism, such people not exist. More precisely, they exist only for exploitation. If there is no disposable income , you are not exist for capital

Capitalism is beautiful, isn't it?
 
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