Why do you many of you seem to get upset at progress?

It sucks because it makes the girls more expensive.

I don't want to see China progress beyond a third world shithole. Imagine if one day China would be the most powerful economy in the world - we're all fucked.

> developing by IMF

is just doublespeak for "opening their economy to milking by international "investors""

in just a generation your country's domestic food and industrial capacities will collapse so you can produce monocultures of bananas, palm oil, or minerals for foreign corporations that pay you a pittance for the right

you'll end up poorer than ever, and with reduced buying power since you'll have to import basics to survive

end up fat, poor, and diabetic thanks to "progress"

>>1240711
It will happen, man. The only important thing is that the Western world (especially Europe) closes its markets to the crappy shit they produce.

>>1240678
The vast majority of those "green" countries are absolute shitholes filled with poverty. The only difference is they redefined what poverty means to keep moving the goal posts and declare themselves successful year after year in 'defeating poverty' thus get more IMF loans.

India is a good example. Go to the bundelkhand area and look at some of those villages. They eat one roti a day and the gov claimed they have eliminated hunger now, redirecting money to pockets of regional governors to spend on mercedes.

>>1240678
>Would prefer these places to be perpetually poor?
/trv/ is actually one of the better adjusted boards on 4chan. You're less likely to find adolescent narcissism here. If we complain about the cost of hostels in Morocco or buying cocktails for ladyboys in Thailand, that's really all it is.

>>1240753
Umm, that is what the green means. Poor or "developing countries". Developing countries being the proper name for "third world" which had nothing to do with economics. It closely aligned to poorer countries. 3rd world means not aligned with Russia or USA/Western Europe.