Gregory's Server@adamgreenfield @pts I still think the long tail of empire has to bear the blame for at least some of it. When you can fuck up repeatedly and there is a quarter of the world to make up and suffer your mistakes with essentially no consequences as long as the rich stay rich, you can go a long time running inefficient systems and getting away with it.
@Nicovel0 @pts Sure, I’ll buy “at least some of it.” But one of the lower-diligence cultures I’m familiar with, Korea, was colonized rather than the colonizer, so there’s not a 1:1 correlation.