I saw it as a commentary on the foreign advisors sent in to fix everything in the article. Consider trust WRT poverty. Specific poor individuals remain poor (

I saw it as a commentary on the foreign advisors sent in to fix everything in the article. Consider trust WRT poverty. Specific poor individuals remain poor (in part) because of people kinda connected to them, playing them with trick questions and financial "innovation" and manipulating them based on trust. Occasionally westerners come to visit, even less connected, and say "trust me I've got a great idea". Well, trusting non-closely-connected people is how they ended up poor / stuck being poor, so good luck with that. The analogy is, a nice magazine author from a magazine I trust, wouldn't intentionally try to screw me with a carefully designed trick linear programming question... or would they? I guess they just did, didn't they.