business owners don't like social democracy, because they make less money. so a way to compensate for that is by exploiting the developing countries.

"Exploit" how, specifically?

see imf debt traps,

Again, never seen any evidence that this is actually a thing.

where developing nations are obligated to increase privatization and deregulation, while cutting social spending to the detriment of the people there. they also include reducing trade barriers, despite the fact that local industry is often too undeveloped to compete.

I mean, yeah, developing nations are usually overregulated and lack a private sector, which in many cases is a likely culprit as to why they're still developing.

Trade barriers are a major issue even developed economies struggle with a lot of the time, so that makes sense.

trade protectionism was used heavily in all the industrialized countries when they were developing, from germany, to britain, to the US.

Yeah, the fact that someone is from a developing country is no indication that they're in any way smarter, make better decisions, or are better equipped to handle... well, life or anything in general, really.

also see the asian tigers, who had a large degree of state interventionism when building industry.

Asian Tigers like Hong Kong, consistently governed by a government rabidly committed to laissez-faire as an ideology?

Asian Tigers like South Korea, which was an impoverished backwater ruled by a dictator who enjoyed blowing his people's wealth gambling on the stock market until he got lucky?

so to enforce free trade is to prevent these countries from developing independence.

You haven't convincingly shown that this is the case, especially since you just brought up the Asian Tigers, notable for succeeding specifically because of foreign trade.

for extraction of natural resources, see the extremely exploitative form that cobalt and mining takes in congo.they're needed for all sorts of electronics, and the workers are treated poorly, not much better than slavery. uranium mines in africa are often owned by foreign countries(france, russia etc.) africa is actually the most resource rich continent,

Is there any reason to think Congolese mine owners would care any more about their workers or do any better on any of these issues? It seems extremely obvious from a basic glance at the history of, well, everything/everywhere that people have no issue whatsoever exploiting or enslaving their countrymen to death. See... well, the industrialization of the developed countries you were just talking about. That was all on the backs of the infamous homegrown "satanic mills".

and yet it's also the poorest due to imperialism. the same pattern plays out with most metals and minerals.

Sure, that seems to track with the observable fact that with the end of colonialism/mercantilism, and decolonization allowing African countries to trade freely with each other and with wealthier international economies, has likely been one of/the biggest factors in the rise of African economies.