True, it's an incredibly cloistered view from both a temporal and a spatial perspective. we in the imperial core owe our current prosperity to the exploitation of the global south, but also the future and past. People who find themselves prosperous at an economic peak do so at the expense of people coming into their means during a collapse. Usually we justify it as "the march of progress" but the defenders of capitalism are finding it harder and harder to obscure that it all will happen again.