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The handouts also actively prevent people from developing skills.
If you want to start a shoe business, for example, and some foreign guy comes in and gives everyone in town free shoes, congratulations, you're out of business
Then 6 months later the "western" shoes are falling apart, and going back to traditional shoes isn't possible because you have to walk 4+ hours to the next town where cobblers are still working.
Bad times!
It's literally the "give a man a fish and he eats for a day or teach him how to fish and he eats for life" maxim playing out in real life.
Except the man refuses to learn no matter how much you teach him, then kills you and eats your corpse