You're not wrong, but at the same time, our western lives have lead to the exploitation of both the people and the resources of less economically developed nations.
It seems our geographic removal from that exploitation leads to an emotional removal from it in a lot of people too
The less economically developed nations that are now being raised from poverty at an unprecedented rate? I don't support extractive colonialism or anything like that, but it's weird how free and open trade is so often described as one nation "exploiting" another.
Im sure nations are very happy with increasing GDP, and im sure families are happy to receive 5c/h manufacturing clothes for a multibillion dollar multinational corperation.
Just because their lives are better doesnt mean we are doing good. Not to mention that india and most of africa wouldnt be living in abject poverty were it not for western colonialism.
Let's go to your country, destroy your society and culture, then build a factory and pay you pennies. Then you can thank me for pulling you out of poverty. It's a tough sell
It seems our geographic removal from that exploitation leads to an emotional removal from it in a lot of people too