Helping the 3rd World!

A continual myth which seems to exist amongst the West is that we can help the 3rd World by development.

Firstly there is no real 3rd world that needs helping.

Secondly the history of the problem reveals the solution. Taxation of Land.

The same process has lead to the world in which the economically developed world lives so it is relevant to us also.

Since the beginning of time tribal lands were fought for and inherited by various means. The problems began when landlords began to tax. The ragument in the West was that the landlords would protect the people from invading people. However the contract was a little one sided because the farmers probably didn't care who ruled them, it is only the ruler who need to be protected!

So to raise taxes people need to produce profit. Once land is viewed as a source of income and profit the lives of the people who have used the land for their livelihoods becomes a secondary issue. In UK Sheep farming became the profitable land use during the beginning of the industrial revolution and so people were displaced off their lands. Losing their means of living and losing the ability to pay taxes they were forced to take up jobs for the industrialists. This massive movement of people into industrial production is what created poverty in the UK.

Now we have exported that poverty to the 3rd World we look rich in the West but it is at the cost of the industrialising world. Hence the reason it needs to develop so that we can export our working class.

Once upon a time of course there was no "poverty". For 10,000 years people in Africa and Asia have lived in what they would have called "normal" conditions. They knew how to manage local crops and the land and that was their life. It was only when land owners began to tax that they ran into problems and lost their ways of life to become dependent upon the economic system. That was the beginning of poverty.

So the answer might be to develop, but its the long way and only really gets them back to square one. The only people to really benefit are the Western economies. The easier and simpler way is to let them remember their traditional ways of life and let them return to that.

After all we all know for sure the material richness and economic development don't make us happy, so why do we spend so much time trying to do these things? and worse enforcing them on others?