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But isn't diversity the key to success?
by throwaway33443 6y ago
But isn't diversity the key to success?
- cvhashim 6y agoLong standing aggressions between these groups sort of stops that.
- throwaway33443 6y agoYou could say the same thing about the whites/blacks in the USA. But even there they've figured out how to make diversity into the "secret sauce" behind prosperity.
- vsskanth 6y agoDiversity and immigration of talent keeps USA prosperous today. However, the path to prosperity was built on the backs of captured slaves followed by two world wars which left the rest of the world damaged but USA emerged out with a massive industrial infrastructure.
- bluthru 6y ago>the path to prosperity was built on the backs of captured slaves Slavery is common, especially in Africa today. >which left the rest of the world damaged but USA emerged out with a massive industrial infrastructure And yet we're the ones with a lower standard of living, a worse social safety net, worse health, higher debt, higher crime, worse education, and no universal healthcare system. Guess diversity and immigration didn't work out so well after all.
- Bayart 6y agoThat's a simplistic view. That might be true in dynamic urban environments where people compete for intangible resources and success is predicated upon individual merit. That's not so much the case when people fight over collective ownership of land, waterways or mines. The earth isn't just a bigger New York.
- bluthru 6y agoThis is a spot-on hypocrisy that they'll never admit. Diversity creates strife that otherwise wouldn't exist: https://freakonomics.com/2011/12/01/the-violent-legacy-of-africas-arbitrary-borders/ https://freakonomics.com/2011/12/01/the-violent-legacy-of-af...