Even with all the training, parts, and encouragement in the world, Empire of Dust proved that Africans are entirely incapable of maintenance as an idea. It's an abstract concept beyond their ken. If they cannot properly conceive of the future as a direction to move towards with an end-state they want to acheive, then keeping a machine from breaking down makes no more sense than keeping a mountain from eroding, or a river from flowing.
Even with all the training, parts, and encouragement in the world, Empire of Dust proved that Africans are entirely incapable of maintenance as an idea. It's an abstract concept beyond their ken. If they cannot properly conceive of the future as a direction to move towards with an end-state they want to acheive, then keeping a machine from breaking down makes no more sense than keeping a mountain from eroding, or a river from flowing.
Not only will they fail to maintain, they will actively destroy what is working to salvage the parts.
They see more value in short term gain than long term results. I’m not even sure they can conceptualize long term results.
Give the 3rd world a well and they dismantle it for scrap metal.
Teach the 3rd world to build a well and they forget in a day and never build a proper one in the first place.
Doesn't this prove otherwise?
No. They will eventually destroy the wells.
2 more weeks!
Is that the one where the Chinese man talks smack about African culture to some black guy's face?
The very same. It's also the origin of the "It's all so tiresome" man.
Doesn't this prove that they are capable of maintenance?
No, it just proves that the wells are working right now.
Right which goes against your theories
This could be corrected out of a population in a generation.
But you'd need to seize control over education and media and the legal system, so it'd basically be colonization but done right.
And is what worth it? No, that's why everyone just comes in and pillages and funds the warlord who will give them the most shit.
Can't educate a population with room temperature IQs.
Creative culling.