Rudd's Breathtaking Ignorance

Not Kevin but Kevin's cousin, Van Thanh Rudd. According to this article Van Thanh recently had his submission to an exhibition rejected for being too provocative. Commenting on his artwork and its meaning Van Thanh reportedly said:

"commenting on the fact that I believe the global economy is a direct hurdle to a lot of the good peace processes to deal with human rights abuses", including in Tibet. He said he did not discount China's obvious atrocities. "But the overwhelming historical thing is going back to American colonialism in Asia and globally."

I really hope this thinking isn't reflective of Kevin's thoughts. I hope Kevin believes something more like this (but I doubt it):

"The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another."
Milton Friedman

The "global economy" is a force for good lifting people out of conflict and poverty, not miring them in it!