“Wage laborers do not have access to the surplus value their work produces. Rather, it is, profit for the capitalist. Similarly, core economics profit by exploiting peripheral economies.”
– Gunder Frank (1967)
In other words, capitalism, by design, requires inequality. It was never intended to be a fair economic system that benefits all. Underdeveloped countries remain underdeveloped so that developed countries can remain developed. Otherwise, it would not be “capitalism.”