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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (6317)	9/17/2007 11:45:04 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

Well you go back log enough and I suppose they where hunter gatherers instead of garbage pickers. After that mostly primitive farmers. But neither of those is exactly an easy or secure living. A "new world" run by corporations is not my idea of utopia. Its not mine either. Corporations don't run the world, and they won't if such development continues. Its also not what I described. Its also not really a new world or a utopia. Its the normal process of development. Corporations used to not exist, than there where very few of them, but since the industrial revolution they started to become more common, and their activities have greatly enriched the world. Greatly enriched doesn't mean some sort of utopia, people still have problems, but its a hell of a lot better than desperately poor. The big problem in the third world isn't the developing countries who are trading with the rich nations and receiving investment from large multinational corporations. Its the "bottom billion" in places that aren't receiving such investment and are being left behind.