[David,]

Unlike Zimbabwe, the "landlords" in many other underdeveloped nations do not reside there and are often corporations ... in Latin America, coffee and bananna plantations dominate the economic landscape (no pun intended). What I think we may see happen in future years is that the "tenants" or "serfs" in these areas (and similarly in areas like Indonesia, where Nike factories are the substitute for coffee plantations) may decide, like they did in Zimbabwe, that this is inherrently inequitable and seize the "property" (either in the form of land or in the form of factories) for their own use. What is troubling about this is that the "landlords" are foreign, and the danger is that it might be presented as a pretext for a war between the "landlord" nation and the "tenant" nation...

[Steve R.]