When food grows untended on the trees, there's no impetus to develop a low time preference mindset. High time preference can always be satisfied biologically.
Civilizations grew in river valleys with at least one harsh season, for a reason. The only people who survived were the ones who could plan.
Yeah.. subsaharan africa will just continue to be shit holes. Maybe theyll get their shit together in 5000 years. Maybe.
You know they won't, they've already had multiple thousands of years.
Civilization? The wheel was too much to ask for many of them.
When food grows untended on the trees, there's no impetus to develop a low time preference mindset. High time preference can always be satisfied biologically.
Civilizations grew in river valleys with at least one harsh season, for a reason. The only people who survived were the ones who could plan.