School Is to Submit
<i>Most nations today would be richer if they had long ago just submitted wholesale to a rich nation, allowing that rich nation to change their laws, customs, etc., and just do everything their way. But this idea greatly offends national and cultural pride. So nations stay poor.</i><p>I&#x27;m sure the people of these nations would love to watch their culture be erased as they become an underclass in the territory of a powerful nation.  Just ask the Native Americans!<p><i>When firms and managers from rich places try to transplant rich practices to poor places, giving poor place workers exactly the same equipment, materials, procedures, etc., one of the main things that goes wrong is that poor place workers just refuse to do what they are told. They won’t show up for work reliably on time, have many problematic superstitions, hate direct orders, won’t accept tasks and roles that that deviate from their non-work relative status with co-workers, and won’t accept being told to do tasks differently than they had done them before, especially when new ways seem harder.</i><p>&quot;Many problematic superstitions?&quot;  What?  Who is this guy even talking about?  This sounds like a caricature, not an actual description of reality.<p><i>The farming mode required humans to swallow many changes that didn’t feel nice or natural to foragers. While foragers are fiercely egalitarian, farmers are dominated by kings and generals, and have unequal property and classes. Farmers work more hours at less mentally challenging tasks, and get less variety via travel. Huge new cultural pressures, such as religions with moralizing gods, were needed to turn foragers into farmers.</i><p>Again, how does he know this?  Is he just making up stories, or is this based on some sort of evidence?