@eidolon @realcaseyrollins @bot @lucy @meeper I won't go into the bad base conditions because we all know, but the "help" is definitely a factor that makes everything worse.
"Africa doesn't have food? Give them food so their farmers have no economic incentive to grow or sell anything"
"They aren't passing in schools? Just graduate everyone anyway so there's no point in trying"
"They can't get hired? Mandate hiring so credentials don't matter"
and so on.