Reading a book on the history of technology this morning, I spent a little tine thinking about the author’s use of “poor countries” in place of the misnomer “3rd world” (the 2nd collapsed 30 years ago), “global south”, or “post-colonial”.
“Poor” is the point whatever the cause exploitation, corruption, resource-deprived. The full phrase, poor countries, forces those of us in the rich countries to give the why of this situation some attention. And if this is a new thought to you then you might take a look at the works of @jasonhickel. For while poor might suggest those who have not worked hard to some, that is hardly the point here, is it.
east of the fog 