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[โ€“] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Showing up with bricks of cash would be less beneficial than dredging their harbors and building out new power plants and fixing all the damage done by the last big earthquake.

Show up with bricks of cash, and harbor-dredgers, electric generators, and construction companies will be racing each other to figure out how to get them from you.

[โ€“] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

construction companies will be racing each other

Construction companies run by billionaires aren't going to be lining up to rebuild the third world, when they profit from it staying demolished.

Toussaint Louverture's Ghost haunts that island, and guys like Bloomberg and Koch won't be happy till it's fully exorcised.

Nasser's Egypt, Mosaddegh's Iran, Pinochet's Chile, Kim's Korea, Castro's Cuba? They're not getting rebuilt at any price.