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So their inability to adapt to a modern world is our fault? I find that hard to believe when they as a society have had way more resources than the rest of the
by marsRoverDev 7y ago
So their inability to adapt to a modern world is our fault? I find that hard to believe when they as a society have had way more resources than the rest of the world for quite some time, and haven't really done much with it.
- ahbyb 7y agoSocieties that have failed despite having lots of resources because of cultural deficiencies or lack of intelligence, well, that could be applied to the whole of Africa. But that's really opening a bad can of worms ;-)
- TeMPOraL 7y agoYou don't have to open the can of worms. Resource curse is a recognized phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
- imtringued 7y agoI can imagine it's because it is very easy for corruption to absorb the wealth. The government has full control over the mineral rights of its land so authoritarian governments spend all of the money on foreign goods because they don't care about their domestic economy and simply trade the goods in USD [1] or some other stable currency that isn't tied to their country.
- dang 7y agoIf you go into race war here we're going to have to ban you again.
- ahbyb 7y agoSorry.
- apta 7y agoThis is a good response to your question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21312537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21312537