Yes it ' s always everyone else ' s fault . <| sep |> What would common sense dictate then ? <| sep |> Western companies come to take advantage of cheap labor , exploiting underprivileged peopleIt ' s not exploiting people . And it ' s pushed up wages massively in the countries that receive it . The same is true of domestic automanufacturers in the US , taking advantage of poor states , less educated workers and loose labor laws when choosing where to locate factories . Again , it ' s not abusing , it ' s just going where you get the best deal . How do you think wages go up ? By no one creating new jobs or increased demand for labour ? and often literally extracting resources of the host country for use back home . TIL resource companies extract resources for usage globally , wow , much knowledge . Yes , it all brings jobs and money to the area , but at what cost ? How did the investing countries get their money in the first place ? Answer usually by making other countries poorer or deader in the first place . In my countries case , at the cost of everyones wages climbing from something like 20 a month in 1990 to 480 today . After 40 years of concentrating wealth and power in the hands of whitesThe africans never really had wealth to begin with , white people brought it there and continued to develop it . education alone is not enoughI bet education and time can . Even if it were true , as you claim , that most of the college ? educated people in South Africa are the white minorityWhite people are more likely to pass the grade , but that ' s not really what I mean by educated . Plenty of uneducated people hold degrees . South Africa are the white minority , the reason so many nonwhites were poor and uneducated during apartheid is because of colonialism and apartheid . All of which benefited who ? The white minority . I agree