I wonder if it's really some conspiracy from a far away foreign power or local customs that prevented the emergence of a stable industrialized state [0] [1]. [

I wonder if it's really some conspiracy from a far away foreign power or local customs that prevented the emergence of a stable industrialized state [0] [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baksheesh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baksheesh [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26588272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26588272