Just arrived on the southern shores of the Mediterranean
Travel from the Red Sea to the southern shores of the Mediterranean, and examine the post-colonial heritage of the British along the way. The conclusion is that the bad political tricks left to the former colonies, such as infighting, godliness, and actors, take away the political, economic, and intellectual elites...... and their property.
Domestic elites, often standing in the position of the suzerain, deeply feel that the suzerain's economy is developed and the people are lazy and happy, but they have never realized that the high premiums of the currency, products, and culture of the developed countries are formed by global convergence, not the strength of the developed countries alone.
On the southern shore of the Mediterranean, you can see the European continent in the distance
This is also the common goal of the entire European and American political circles in the post-colonial era, through the plundering of global talents, funds, and resources, especially the 7 billion people outside the developed regions, to obtain resources, knowledge, funds, discourse and other advantages, so as to obtain excess profits and consolidate domestic votes.
As a result, of the more than 100 former Western colonies in the world, Singapore is the only one that has developed well.
The situation in the rest of the country is not optimistic, especially after the apparent retreat of the empire, and the orderly withdrawal of the colonial elite. Many countries that seem to have a high GDP have low living standards, poor infrastructure, and disintegrated education systems.
Today, most of the political, economic, and cultural authorities in the former colonies, themselves or their families, have settled in the Western world.
The colonies are festering day by day, with all the capital, talent, and order lost, and they are repeatedly turbulent like chronic ulcers, and the degree of infrastructure, legalization, and industrialization is even worse than in the colonial era.
As a result of the growing desperation, a large number of talents and funds in the former colonies will also find ways to flee their homeland and further gather in the suzerain, which not only pushes up the asset prices of the suzerain, but also hollows out the colonies. These countries seem to have decent GDP, but they have no money to build, and the people exchange their only savings for dollars and euros and remit them to the suzerain.
Just look at countries with a big difference in GDP per capita with Chinese, such as South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia, Argentina, and even higher countries in the Middle East, to know that GDP is output value, not stock funds, and does not represent people's living standards.
No matter how high the GDP is, the profits will be taken away by international capital, and there will be no three melons and two dates left. If you look at most countries with a GDP of 1.2-30,000 US dollars, it is difficult to compare the infrastructure, public services, quality of life, and security of the people with China's 300-400 million urban population. Because the profits were taken away by the investors of the suzerain, as well as the colonial elites living in the suzerain, the colonies could only barely make ends meet, and there was no accumulation of funds for sustainable development.
Of course, the same is true for talent, and for many colonial countries, the overlord country has absorbed almost all the PhDs in science and engineering. The rest are mostly compradors and agents of the suzerain.
This situation is very common, dozens of colonies after the British withdrawal, the Philippines after the withdrawal of the United States, West Africa and North Africa after the withdrawal of France, Congo after the withdrawal of Germany, Indonesia after the withdrawal of the Netherlands, and the countries of Central and South America, the elites have not only lived in the West since childhood, but also have long sought rent and sucked blood from their mother countries.
Ordinary people are extremely disappointed with the state. After the epidemic, as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates sharply, more money fled to the United States. Many countries are already bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy, prices have quadruple or tripled, incomes have halved, and people in the middle and lower classes are even more desperate. Anyone who has a little idea is digging out their minds and going bankrupt to run the West.
As a result, the entire population has lost their desire for positive development, infrastructure has relied on the old foundation of a hundred years ago, basic education has relied on the talent of a few people, and economic autonomy has been basically abandoned, resulting in a situation in which the whole people are in a state of flux.
An even worse situation has emerged, which is the "green" economy that the West would like to see. Not only is the per capita carbon footprint low, but more importantly, the more desperate the colonial people are, the more motivated they are to study, accumulate wealth, and escape ascension. As a result, talent and capital flowed from the colonies to the suzerain.
Britain, or perhaps the legacy of Western colonial rule, is to leave others with bad political tricks, leaving other countries in a state of periodic civil strife in order to keep the chances of a long-term harvest forever.
On the southern shore of the Mediterranean, you can see Europe in the distance