Yes it is, and I have done very well from being colonized: <Critics, including prominent international non-governmental organisations like Oxfam, and the FAO believe the deals are a form of neo-colonialism. >
Nearly all local yokels benefit from being colonized in such a way. Oxfam and FAO presume that colonialism is a bad thing rather than a good thing. It's much more profitable and fun working for people with loads more money and heaps more talent than swapping chickens and yams with other local yokels.
Look at ElM and Mq - shirtless when young, but worked for colonizers who gave us profits galore and good works to do to benefit other local yokels.
Today I am roaming Rarotonga, figuring out how to colonize them with Globalstar, O3B, fibre and cheap, fast, low latency, reliable, mobile cyberspace. I watch the local guy putting coconut leaves over his mud ready for taro planting. He worked until it was too dark. There is no gold here and nobody needs it. They want mobile cyberspace.
There is a good Globalstar gateway site just 200 metres from where I am sitting now. I need some pole climbing types to install the foundations, dishes and wiring of various types, back-up generator and whatnot.
The local bloke doesn't have money to pay for it, so he needs some international colonizers to provide the money, the technology and the know how. He can rent the land to the thousands of people across the Pacific Ocean islands, skies and seas who would use the service. He could still plant taro if he wants to but he might prefer to go on holidays to Disneyland with the grandchildren or something.
Or he might buy a fishing boat with the income and go fishing for delicious wahoo, mahimahi, marlin and stuff and sell it to Geeks who would like to live here to do their geeking instead of in dirty, crowded Beijing, Bangalore, Los Angeles, and Glasgow. Geeks could fly here for the northern winter and have a great life while they fill cyberspace with code and profits.
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