experience with poor people is that most lack the skills to view money as a tool to build something.
BINGO, and not only poor people. I recall the Obama Administration paying 10 times the usual cost to build the health care website that very few visited. They think business is easy “build it and they will come”. It is not.
They eat each other.
“BINGO, and not only poor people. I recall the Obama Administration paying 10 times the usual cost to build the health care website that very few visited. They think business is easy “build it and they will come”. It is not.”
That would be a massively naive view of Obamacare. CGI was hired on purpose — their whole history was fouling things up. (https://www.dailydot.com/debug/cgi-federal-healthcare-gov-history/)
Like the ‘green’ companies who absorb big grants and vanish without result, like the companies hired with IMF money to build amusement parks in squalor, the *point* is to waste money on corruption.
Every dollar, euro, lira or yen created out of nothing and sent to projects like this steals the value from everyone who produced something good, without knife or gun. It obviously obliterates any chance for Africans to build something — why save up 100 “cedi” when tomorrow the government will spent 100,000,000 cedi on corruption and make your money worthless again?
It’s not accident or lack of skills, it’s intentional policy from the central planners — whether EUrocrats in the IMF or Brandon here.