Following is one lecture that the author will present. This is your permission to use any part of, or all, this lecture. This vivid picture of the true cause of poor nations will push aside the nonsense that has been promoted as honest trade and open minds for creating a trully honest trading philophy. Each equally productive worker likes, and purchases, the other's model cars. While in a homogenized market of many producers there is a 10 times differential in buying power, in direct trades between each other there is an exponential 100 times differential in retained wealth .
All wealth comes from resources and resources are in the countryside.
Thus for 800 years the cities of the Middle Ages raided the countryside to destroy their primitive industrial capital, forcing the countryside to sell their natural resources to the city. City states fought city states over those same resources. The imperial city states evolved into imperial nations which continued to fight for control of resources and trade, the source of their wealth. Military forces of the wealthy world spread all over the world are there for the same purpose as those raiding parties from the imperial cities of Europe, control resources, monopolize industrial technology and control markets in short, controlling the rules of unequal trade . America, with 5 percent of the world's people, consumes 28 percent of the world's resources.