I personally live in Argentina. And I must say that the problem here is not that were a developing country. We used to be one. But not anymore... Since "dear" president Menem, which privatized and sold all national enterprises to foreign capitals or directly closed factories, railways, etc our country is deep into corruption and bad politicians and this is precisely supported by international interests How is that related to U$S 100 laptop? You might wonder... Well, A LOT. Because here perhaps politicians would give a couple to relatives, friends and so on in a "chain of favours", keeping the possibility away from people who really would appreciate/need it And, finally, the importation taxes... Here industry is dismantled, no factory, no local producers, but despite of that we have a protectionist policy of imported things that makes (beside salary and currecy conversion: I do linux technical support 9 to 18, Monday To Friday and get paid about U$S 270 and U$S 1 = AR $1) imported thing price unaceptable... For example LOMO LC-A camera is U$S 100~140 in the world, guess how much is it here: U$S300 yep! big robbery... If people from developed countries want to help us, they should notice what are doing with us with that 'globalized economy' thing, and not support such corrupted governments here. After all, you lose too, because Nike prefers paying U$S 100 per month to an Indonesian worked that U$S 2000 to an united states worker...
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I personally live in Argentina. And I must say that the problem here is not that were a developing country. We used to be one. But not anymore...
Since "dear" president Menem, which privatized and sold all national enterprises to foreign capitals or directly closed factories, railways, etc our country is deep into corruption and bad politicians and this is precisely supported by international interests
How is that related to U$S 100 laptop? You might wonder... Well, A LOT. Because here perhaps politicians would give a couple to relatives, friends and so on in a "chain of favours", keeping the possibility away from people who really would appreciate/need it
And, finally, the importation taxes... Here industry is dismantled, no factory, no local producers, but despite of that we have a protectionist policy of imported things that makes (beside salary and currecy conversion: I do linux technical support 9 to 18, Monday To Friday and get paid about U$S 270 and U$S 1 = AR $1) imported thing price unaceptable... For example LOMO LC-A camera is U$S 100~140 in the world, guess how much is it here: U$S300 yep! big robbery...
If people from developed countries want to help us, they should notice what are doing with us with that 'globalized economy' thing, and not support such corrupted governments here. After all, you lose too, because Nike prefers paying U$S 100 per month to an Indonesian worked that U$S 2000 to an united states worker...