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In reply to the discussion: John Kerry: Up to Saudi Arabia to decide if women should be allowed to drive [View all]ancianita
(37,683 posts)invested in world companies there that propped profitable apartheid that existed to oppress the vast majority of its population.
If we tried other means -- not just double talk -- that cut into the economic well being of resource-rich countries, like Saudi Arabia, on behalf of HALF their populations, that would indicate a fairer international stand. I've heard of trade increases based on "benchmark" social changes within other societies. So, if they were to want more international trade profit, they can make structural changes that give half their populations more equal mobility and opportunities that come from that.
Profit and market control are the foundation arguments -- seldom voiced, publicly -- for keeping down whole populations that can provide "free" or "cheap" goods and services -- like half these sovereign countries' populations.