... unfortunately what matters is that gold is a curse. Colonialism hundreds of years ago froze extractive oppressive hierarchies, and even though many places g

... unfortunately what matters is that gold is a curse. Colonialism hundreds of years ago froze extractive oppressive hierarchies, and even though many places gained independence the new elite mostly took the already in-place system and started to run it to benefit themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Origins_of_Comparative_Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Origins_of_Comparativ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse