[Tweet] Colonization in Reverse
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Colonization was an unmitigated good for Africa.
Africans were iron-age barbarians with no written language, no mechanical tech, no agriculture, and no architecture. Now they are heading back in that direction.
Lubumbashi has a single power plant built by the Belgians 70 years ago. The locals have to find foreign contractors to keep it working. It doesn't provide enough power so every week a different section of the city is blacked out.
It is a literal Mad Max world; ignorant savages living in the ruins of a civilization they didn't build and will never comprehend.
Of course they're heading back in that direction. Reversion to the mean.
Except now they have an absolutely enormous population surplus caused by western medicine and food imports.
Once that gravy train stops, hundreds of millions of them are going to die.
Macroscale example of why it's better to teach someone to fish rather than simply give him the fish.
What if he isn't smart enough to use a rod?
The hypothetical man in question can be a dirt farmer then I guess. 🤷♂️
Good.