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G8 leaders make us sick
> By: Kieren McCarthy
> Posted: 24/07/2000 at 16:35 GMT
>
> There's a theory that predicts capitalism will turn
> into the most corrupt form of
> communism. It holds that due to the make-up of
> capitalism - which rewards
> money with money and power - it is inevitable that
> over time society will split
> into the elite super-rich and the rest. The tendency
> for monopolies to form
> under capitalism has already been proven and if you
> look back, the size of
> mergers has steadily increased in the last ten
> years.
>
> So what has this got to do with the heads of the
> world's biggest industrial
> countries (Tony Bleurgh and Bill Clownton included)
> making us sick? Well the
> lads have come up with a really good idea to help
> the world's poor. No, it's
> not the cancellation of ruinous, disgraceful debts.
> Nor is it the plan by the
> World Trade Organisation to cut the duty of products
> from Third World
> countries. Both these suffer from a common fault.
>
> No profit.
>
> And so how do we solve the developing world's
> troubles. Why, by selling
> them computer equipment, giving them access to the
> Internet and then letting
> them buy our goods online. Eh? Eh? This is the most
> ridiculous thing we have
> ever heard. And we are actually sickened by the
> selling of the concept as a
> positive step in helping the rest of the world.
>
> If this isn't the ultimate in proof that money makes
> you greedy, blinkered and
> selfish, we don't know what is. This official line
> is that the "dot force" initiative
> will "leapfrog the barriers" that keep these
> countries poor. Barriers,
> incidentally, put up by ourselves. Its kinda like
> strapping someone into an
> electric chair and then giving them a remote control
> for the switch.
>
> Oh and guess what? It won't cost the governments
> much because technology
> companies are stepping into the breach. So far we
> have Andersen Consulting
> - which is to set up a consulting team (blimey! if
> only we'd all thought of that
> before, Africa might be a consumer paradise by now)
> - and Cisco, which will
> presumably supply the entire infrastructure.
>
> If we are really lucky we might see the extension of
> credit to these countries
> for the first time since the West last messed them
> up in the 70s. We'll also train
> up the young so we can then pull them into our
> countries and sap their
> resources and culture. What a lucky bunch.
>
> Just think what fun Ethopians could have with a Web
> PC. Lael Brainard,
> President Clinton's deputy economic adviser, clearly
> has. "It's clear that
> information technology holds promise, providing an
> entire library to the most
> remote places that can't even get access to books
> now," it said, managing to
> completely miss a pretty big fact: many of them
> can't read. Within two months,
> we're probably be hearing about how Amazon can now
> guarantee delivery to
> the African continent within 10 days (riots
> permitting).
>
> Honestly, this reads like a spoof for everything
> that is bad with Western
> civilisation. And the men controlling the most
> powerful countries in the world
> ought to be ashamed. R
>
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> If you'd like to congratulate Mssrs Blair, Clinton,
> Putin et al on their terrific
> idea, you can email the G8 conference's official
> suggestion box here.

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