unironically I think it's about culture . even a moron can be productive and law abiding if raised correctly, the problem with Afrika for example is that they still have shitty stone age tribal culture that is mostly about how grug has a bigger dick and stick then grog so naturally they will get into conflicts more often which leads to society becoming to volatile so it can't sustain any form of economy beyond basic mining and farming. meanwhile in places like China you have a culture that idealises peace, conformity, and productivity. really it is no suprise then that the chinese become more advanced as a society than the ones who follow barbarian norms. we can even see this in Europe where there were no large germanic realms until they absorbed some of the roman values during the fall. <|endoftext|> 