When I think of starving, malnourished people I always think of Africa or South America. Maybe it's all those advertisements from the "Christian Children's Fund" or maybe it was the "We are the World" song from way back when. When I typed up this statistic on Nationmaster, I did not expect to see the following statistic. Forty percent of the world's poor are in India. Twenty percent are in China. What? India exports food, and so does China. Why are people still starving there? Aren't these countries growing faster than any others? Why are people still impoverished there?
This statistic which can be found here: click here is telling a huge story. China has wealth, but it's not making its way down to the masses. India has wealth, but ignores its poor. What would cause such a thing?
I'm just speculating here, but I would imagine that our wealthy (four of the top billionaires are Waltons from Wal-Mart fame) are paying India and China's wealthy to use the poor minions to make products cheaply. The only ones benefiting from this arrangement are the very few billionaires. These countries are rewarded by our wealthy oligarchs for being the good servant. They get perks if they allow the wealthy to use their population. They get punished if they do not allow themselves to be stepped on by the West's oligarchs.
They say okay and stomp their own poor into the ground to get a piece of the pie. They have enough food, but their own poor won't pay money for it. Better to sell it to the West than feed one's own starving people. Better to educate a few to work with the West than educate everyone. Neither India nor China have perfect literacy. India's is worse.
I am wondering what Western capitalism has done to the rest of the world especially China and India.
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