Or many African countries were taken advantage of for centuries by white Europeans and put into a crappy social/financial position and are still trying to recover from it decades later. How could they afford to outbid the richer countries that took advantage of them?

I remember during the pandemic richer countries that had left over Covid vaccines nearing the end then gave the vaccines to the poorer countries. So yes, they were treated like beggars.

What’s the privacy policy for something like this? I don’t see any info listed. The idea of Amazon having that kind of data worries me.