None of those places have America's standard of living.
Because all of those places had kings!
West Africa was crawling with them like grubs in a sago palm.
Hard to build anything worthwhile when it belings to somebody else before you've built it.
(There are many near-analogs of kings)
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npub1mt…3ueyt
2026-07-13 12:36:44 UTC
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