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To: TimF who wrote (108744)	5/1/2000 1:04:00 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577020

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "helping them up the corporate ladder" or how it relates to my post which was about child labor in third world countries. As for helping poorer countries develop, the best way would probably be free trade, as it will help us and them. Direct aid is often wasted by coruption or otherwise mismanaged. Even in the best cases it still has the problem that it tends to increase the size and power of the country's government more then it tends to promote competitive industry. Tim, I guess I wasn't clear enough....you said in your post that the Indonesians were worse off than poor Americans in 1900, and therefore were not ready to move up. My response was that, due to TV, movies, and the distribution of news in general, the third world people in 2000 are much more aware of the gap between them and the citizens of developed countries then were the poor Americans at the turn of the century. And if these people feel there is no way to close the gap between themselves and the wealthier developed nations, then its very likely that the world, and more specifically the developed nations, will have a dangerous situation on their collective hands. More and more, I believe that to survive we will have to think in more worldly terms as opposed to nationalistic ones. ted BTW did you figure out how to bold or italicize words yet?