>>513618>Also we outsourced our productive capacities, but that was much more recent than imperialismAnd before that… well, let's look at India. Britain straight up destroyed Indian industries, everything competitive to the British industry was undone, everything's left was farming, mining and such, aimed at supplying Britain with resources. Since India consumed a lot of those products before getting it industries destroyed, since demand didn't vanish, Britain also started selling to India those products as well.
Come to think of it, in a way, Britain STOLE jobs from it's colony. What I am talking about is a similar steal - West stealing all the programmer, professor, doctor, lawyer jobs from the Global South. I think it's a way better way of portraying it, isn't it?