this reminds me how even China now imports north Korean defacto slave labour.

if countries adopted a bitcoin standard though and wealth independent of currency etc, would this not give them the leverage to more or less, break free of imperialism?

or would they then become the new imperialists and bash the countries that failed to stack hard enough?

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bitcoin

wage discrepancy in different countries  - does bitcoin fix this?

"weak currency" isn't the explanatory factor here. Imperialism is. Western/northern countries actively keep wages low in so-called "developing" countries, it's part of a multi-level system of robbery (cheap to free resources, including labor, are what keeps the economies of the North/West running). (Famously. when haiti wanted to raise their wages, hillary Clinton intervened to keep them at less than 50 cents an hour, to keep US buisinesses' ability to exploit them super-cheaply).