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Now you're hitting onto something. Of course technology will make them be more productive. Do you think that a low minimum wage is the reason why they haven't had much investment in technology?
Low wages have probably contributed to the lack of technology, yes. this lack of technology keeps their productivity low, and thus they do not become wealthy.
Because wages tend toward marginal productivity! You can't make a third world nation prosperous by demanding a wage comparable to a developed first world nation. All you'll do is increased unemployment and make the population worse off than it was before.
If a third world country had the technology and internal demand that developed countries have, they wouldn't be third world would they? We have already agreed that low wages is holding back the investment in technology, and low investment in technology is the cause of their proverty, thus paying higher wages is the solution.
Name one country which started paying higher wages to it's productive workers that didn't increase in wealth.