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I'm really glad you replied. I hadn't realised that it was impossible to offer help and technical support without invading. Strawman-of-the-month-award goes to.

• kragen 9y ago
  It's not a strawman. You didn't propose offering help and technical support. You proposed introducing “proper” systems of banking and land title. If you can decide how a country’s systems of banking and land title work, you are governing that country. Thus, your proposal is that “third-world” countries be governed by people from “first-world” countries. That's nothing more or less than colonialism. It is a terrible idea. Perhaps you think that poor countries don't have existing systems of land tenure or credit. We do. We aren't monkeys banging on rocks. The problem is that those systems suck. You might think they suck because nobody here knows how better systems work. But in fact, not only do we have internet access and universities, many of us have studied overseas in rich countries and even worked there, some even in banking and real estate. They suck because of resistance to change by the people in power, who are not entirely wrong, because change often looks like the Congo Free State, the Khmer Rouge, the Second Opium War, or Donald Trump.
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