  00-00-0000, 00:00 PM  okay let's buy all the land in a poor country to prevent the people from growing their own food and tell them the only way they can eat or feed their children is if they work in my factory for 00 cents an hour, far more labor and time than it would cost to grow their own food if they had the rights to the land  but hey why are they crying? all we're doing is offering them jobs right? there's no way it could do anything but benefit them!  or better yet, since this is capitalism we're talking about they can just save their 00 cents an hour (whatever they don't spend on food or clothes) and with enough patience and determination they can one day buy their land back and open their own factory! right?  Please provide some examples of where poor people sold the great swaths of land they themselves owned to American companies. Or are you talking about poor people packed into cities that don't own enough land to grow a blade of grass and never did?  