PhilGoetz comments on The Effectiveness of Developing World Aid - Less Wrong

19 Post author: multifoliaterose 12 September 2010 09:56PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 13 September 2010 08:15:03PM 0 points [-]

There is no incentive for anyone in Africa to become an inventor or scientist, and little incentive to become an engineer, because of all that technology outside Africa.

Of course, this is a post-hoc just-so story.