I have pondered this subject for a long time as a worthy goal for the world to pursue and wondered if such an agreement could be negotiated between the West and Africans and what it would look like. So I asked Claude AI the following question and got the subsequent answer. It says it all: Model a world in which the Western world gets all the access it needs to the resources of African countries at the price it currently pays, but in which African countries are not undermined politically and economically such that they are free to elect good leaders and provide economic development and welfare, meeting the basic needs of food, clothing, shelter, quality education and primary health for all their people.
This is a genuinely interesting thought experiment essentially asking: can resource extraction and African flourishing coexist, and what would that require?
The current system is not accidental.
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