why is the world not more outraged by the Uyghurs camps?

What technology? Europe (Germany was super famous for it) produces a lot of quality things. In my own country we have our own smartphone company (or had, I don't remember).

Nobody in Europe produces a significant amount of phones or any sort of computers. Nobody in Europe produces microchips. What kind of device are you writing this from btw? I bet it's home made, right?

Infrastructure? Sure, you imagine the Chinese build our streets? Maybe where you are from its different.

Might wanna have a look where asphalt, concrete and steel comes from. You might also wanna check where all the parts for our construction equipment come from as well as all the computers necessary to conduct a construction project.

Who is the west? And who is the rest of the world?

Europe and the US.

That's a myth that you are telling yourselves. That every other place somehow has it worse than you. So that you can feel good about whatever bad thing happens to you. "Oh homeless people? Other countries don't even have medicine..."

I never said any of those things. Stop making up bullshit and pretending like it's true. My claims are backed up by statistics. 8% of the world's population lives in EXTREME poverty. That is less than $1.9 per day. 23.2% live on less than $3.2 per day. Overall 42.9% of the world's population live on less than $5.5 per day.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/april-2022-global-poverty-update-world-bank#:\~:text=The%20global%20poverty%20rate%20(at,recent%20years%2C%20as%20previously%20noted.

You are completely clueless:

  1. You don't understand the cost of labour, materials processing, mining materials and setting up facilities for harvesting plus operational costs.
  2. You don't understand the fact that nearly all of our industry relies on materials and products coming from China, India, and more recently Africa as well.
  3. You don't understand the sheer cost of having to shift the production that we can shift and adapting it in Europe and the US. It's pretty much impossible and it would take decades to even begin to do it.
  4. You don't understand that many of the resources we need are literally not available in adequate quantities on any US or European territories, probably because you've never seen a map in your life.
  5. You don't understand that even if we did magically have the resources and the money, we still don't have nearly enough available human resources to make all of the products that we rely on other countries to make for us.
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