I wondered why this jogged a memory.
Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town. Life was placid, with no danger, except to your health. That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peac...
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Contemplate the horror that many American blacks are no more intelligent or socially evolved than the Senegalese.
The corruption part I learned from college professor I had from Cameroon. If you get a government job in most any African country, you HAVE to give as much as you can to your (extended) family as possible, otherwise you're basically telling them to fuck off. This goes for everyone from the lowest bureaucrat to the president.
The reason being is because Africa is extremely communal. As that same professor explained, African families do this to support each other so they can pool their resources so goods like food, clothing, and education are more plentiful than you'd think despite the poverty. Self-defense too, that's why they lynch so many rapists, murderers, etc. in Africa, the family (and related families in the same neighborhood) always watch each other's backs. The difference between African blacks and American blacks is the black family has been destroyed as a unit (and the black church is declining as well), so they can't really do this, thus suffer for it while their society retains the communal element that leads to massive amounts of corruption.
It takes 3 hours for a full recharge.
It would be either physically impossible or take some sort of hypothetical super materials to charge an electric car as fast as you can fill up a gas tank. And since most people don't drive their car enough that they can't recharge it every night, there's no incentive to improve the charging time.
The electric car thing is deliberately to screw with how mobile we are. In the era of the electric car, you'll never be able to take a real road trip again. So if you want to take a long trip at any reasonable pace, you'll have to either go with Amtrak (lol) or book a plane. Don't forget your two masks and vaccine passport!
I've thought about it like this. They don't even see reducing peoples quality of life as an issue. We're all just poor people to them.
I have been to many third world countries. I have seen people living happy lives in what is abject poverty compared to my life. What ever disparity a westerner like me has in these countries to the average person. The rich elites have a greater disparity with the average person walking through the streets of rich western countries.
Several studies state that once a country reaches middle-income status (about 10K USD per capita GDP or so), increasing the wealth of the country has almost no effect on the happiness of its citizens.