krtshv t1_jed5lx5 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:37 AM

Reply to comment by QubitQuanta in 'We've made it clear that Russia is a friend': Pandor doubles down on SA's Ukraine stance. by tandemuis365

Population means nothing. This isn't a popularity war.

It's about who has the strongest economies.. And that's the west.

QubitQuanta t1_jed72ib wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:50 AM

Ah, its greatest hearing the so-called champion of democracy deciding that its $$ that talks, and that people mean nothing. I suppose that is pretty much American democracy in a nutshell.

But even if we can go buy your measure of money is king:

https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/2023/03/27/the-brics-has-overtaken-the-g7-in-global-gdp

BRICS has overtaken the G7 is GDP. SA is still standing in the side of global support.

krtshv t1_jedaqp0 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:26 AM

Population matters in the matters of state. In a country that is a democracy.

The world, as a whole, isn't a democracy. World wide decisions aren't made according to population.

And the G7 isn't the entire west, just as the entire east (or w/e you want to call it) isn't just BRICS. The west, as a whole, still has a more powerful economy.

In the end, it's "made in China" (or India) because they're cheap labor for the west to purchase.

tiktaktok_65 t1_jedeeao wrote on March 31, 2023 at 5:04 AM

as if the majority of people isn't driven by money, power and status as well. exploitation is as old as human history and no one is innocent - we all contribute our share to human suffering. as for BRICS overtaking Western GDP let's see what happens a couple of decades down the road when climate change has had a chance starting to erode wide areas around the equator or sea levels start rising requiring tremendous investments to reallocate major urban areas. once people start dying like flies because corruption won't help you escape heat, drought, rain, storms, poverty, bad infrastructure and solve the problems of a lack of food and water supply we will see how BRICS are going to help each other. when everything goes to shit everyone turns on everyone, that is the only truth about human civilisation, doesn't matter what direction of the compass points at you.

also: gdp on itself is meaningless as a value for comparison. you compare gdp per capita. BRICS have a lot of catching up to do.