Quote Originally Posted by rvg View Post
And how does that apply to states?
There are different levels of exploitation.

A crude example, there's a patch of sand somewhere in the world. Tomorrow oil is found. A foreign country comes over there and starts drilling. Out of the oil taken the residents of the patch of sand get 20% and the foreign country 80%. The residents of the patch of sand are infinitely richer than they were, yet it's still exploitation by the foreign country.

I don't see what is so difficult to grasp about the concept.