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Your message is nonsensical. You said:
The global south has extraordinary productive capacities. It is rich in resources, labor, factories, and technologies. But it does not have sovereign control over those productive capacities. Largely, Transnational Capital does. Its labor and resources are mobilized around producing sweatshop goods for the West rather than hospitals, schools, and sanitation systems for its own population.
Health, education, and sanitation are all things that you spend money on. The sweatshops earn money. You're saying build more schools and less sweatshops. How would you pay for the school without selling labor and resources to the West?
The sweatshops earn money.
Really? To whom? Not to the community of people working for it. Is your idea of health, education, and sanitation still the one of it being served publicly?
How would you pay for the school without selling labor and resources to the West?
Simply by refusing to waste time for a slavery job or giving away resources nearly free, which I know have different value, and mostly focusing on what I could instead produce that is of use for the community I live with, instead of competing to get a job in that sweatshop.
I'd not pay the school with money but with my time invested not only to educate my heirs but also to share that same time with those of the families I share space with. The school you have in mind is probably not the same I do. As I said, we should be ready to unlearn what we know and start being creative, learning new ways to do different things. Start with thinking differently.
How else would you do it? How else would you pay for the school education of your children without selling labor and resources to the West?
Really? To whom? Not to the community of people working for it. Is your idea of health, education, and sanitation still the one of it being served publicly?
Yes, they do. Go look at the economic evidence of actual sweatshops. Ask the people who work there, see what their second-best options are.
Go read an actual book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/out-of-poverty/0CD8DA1E9854012B7ABDE016960F09AA
Cmon, man, these are clowns teenage-level objections
I'd not pay the school with money but with my time invested not only to educate my heirs but also to share that same time with those of the families I share space with.
Money is time. It's how we track value across time. Education costs time and energy (i.e. money). Yes, it's an investment that is hopefully going to help with earning money in the future, but you need capital first in order to make the investment.
Really? To whom? Not to the community of people working for it.
Yes, it does go to the community of people working for it. The labor is only cheap compared to developed countries, not free. It's not slavery. This is how countries transition out of poverty. Countries that sell cheap labor to the West acquire capital, then they invest that capital in their own community, and then they can work cushy jobs instead of the sweatshops. There's no need for a creative solution when capitalism has already been proven to work.
I guess you are talking from a cushy spot. Things have been working like this, it will change. It's up to us to decide how. Future generations will look back and struggle to comprehend why we traded the way we do, the same way new generations can't read the time on an analogue watch.
I guess you are talking from a cushy spot.
I am what makes a spot cushy. If the United States didn't exist, every poor country on earth would become even poorer.
Things have been working like this, it will change.
I'm not talking about what's working. I'm talking about what already worked. Every rich country on earth used to be poor and became rich through work. There is no other way.
You fully misinterpreewting my message, or pehaps I've not wrote it clearly? I suggest you read teh above again, and check the references I places along the lines.