| I'm from Africa, and left a long time ago. If you look at Western Europe + the "Anglosphere" ex-colonies, there's a long history of how laws and attitudes evolved in such a way as to virtually guarantee rule of law, individual rights, democracy, property rights, and people doing their jobs with genuine effort and in good faith. For whatever reason, it's been incredibly deeply ingrained into people here in the West - over millennia - to expect these things from and for themselves. But in Africa, I don't know why, you just don't have all these ingredients. And so you can give it every resource and all the infrastructure and investment, but I don't think you can easily send the true source of wealth from one society to another one. It's at least 1000x times easier to do business in North America than in Africa. Instead of getting stymied at every turn by some new idiotic stumbling block, the whole system here pulls in the right direction. There are lots of metrics that are improving incredibly well for Africa, and maybe this is the start of an upward spiral. I certainly hope so - that continent badly needs a couple of centuries of extreme prosperity growth. |