If only we could force the owners of sandwich shops to pay those sign spinners enough to support their family, buy a house, and send their kids to college.....
Fucking parasites.
Dude, your notion of "force" is bush-league.
Here is a more effective way of doing it.
You - as the world's only superpower - gain control of the IMF. Then you target the resource rich 3rd world (located mostly in the global south) with "Structural Improvement" loans. These loans are designed to improve the lives of the citizens, but they are used to maximize a narrow sliver of the industrial infrastructure for the purpose of resource extraction by foreign capital - namely the USA. In order to make the "Structural Improvement" loan in the first place, you need a corruptible dictator who will accept the loan under the proper terms, namely that the agreed-upon default will result in the USA seizing certain key economic and political assets, which seizure will result in transforming the country into a source of cheap raw material and cheap labor for American investment capital. The cheap labor part is vital and requires financial and weapons payments to a brutal dictator in exchange for maintaining the political conditions for sweatshop labor (which labor provides U.S. corporations with the highest possible return on investment). Key to all of this is a robust ideological system on the U.S. homeland which convinces people that the global market system managed by Washington is a Free Market - rather than a virulent strain of militarily enforced global capitalism which systematically transfers good American jobs to strategically oppressed labor markets in the global south.
The most important aspect of this whole thing - as alluded to above - is opinion management. It is vital that people like yourself know nothing about how this system is structured. It is absolutely essential that you view it through cliches about freedom. More importantly, your media sources teach you to mistrust anybody who tries to tell you how the global system of capital is actually managed. It is 100% necessary that you believe that global capitalism is made of voluntary economic arrangements, often marked by the more advanced nation supplying the technology and capital, while the less advanced nation voluntarily supplies the raw material and labor. This is why names like Mossadeq and Pinochet are empty holes, symbolically standing for what should have been a full education had the manipulated homelanders been permitted to get their historical information from peer reviewed academic sources rather than think tanks and popular media.
(God Help us)
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