[ajkjk]

Well that's no fair; nor would they have had they have the same opportunities. Do your/our good opportunities entitle us to earn 50x what someone else does? Only in a colonialist "we got here first so now you work for us" sense.

[Longhanks]

I can’t change the past. I fully support changing the course of Africa towards more education, but that doesn’t make Africans suddenly super proficient software engineers, and doesn’t teach them "how to work productively with western companies" (if you get what I mean - there’s more to work than pure manpower).

Does that make me a colonialist?

[fifilura]

How about starting by making software cheaper for people in Africa?

[ajkjk]

It's the opinion (that their reduced opportunities / economic bargaining position mean they _should_ be paid orders of magnitude less) that's colonialist, rather than you as a person. By 'colonialist' I of course mean to imply "regressive and repugnant". It is not an immutable economic fact that wages should be where they are relative to each other.