throwway390

> the tribes I was immersed with

You should have started off with that. There's no point in arguing with you if this is the case. You're too invested in them.

This is fine. You're probably more correct that I am anyway, since you've experience on the ground. I'm just armchair quarterbacking.

My point is that Africa is at the lower end of that scale (tribes) where the West is at the upper end (Unions). Or was, until Trump and Brexit.

My point is that progress in Africa is hampered by unnecessary divisions between people. It's obviously not the only problem, but it's not helping, either.

"The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated the total resident Indigenous population to be 458,520 in June 2001 (2.4% of Australia's total)"[0]

You're missing my point. There are no tribes in Australia, for practical purposes. Australia has moved past the concept of tribes. In Australia, people are born into Australia.

In Africa, in 2017, people are born into a tribe.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians

Where there's division, there's conflict.

Ordered by number of conflicts, in decreasing amount:

Tribes > Nation-states > Unions.

There will be more wars when the European Union breaks up. Or when the US does.

Conversely, Africa will greatly benefit from becoming more united in the same way the West has. This is now being reverted (see Trump, Brexit), so you just wait and see where that takes us.

> Europeans have Africa beat.

War seems to have stopped in (Western) Europe though. That is until the Russians take advantage of the current power vacuum to start one, or a spark ignites between ethnic groups that haven't been around in large enough numbers until very recently.

On the other hand, Africa is at war today. See: article being discussed and [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Africa#21...

They could also knock it off with the tribalism - there's what, 100000000 different tribes?[0] They'd go back to killing each other anyway.

EDIT: read that link and then explain how that is not a problem instead of downvoting:

"The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands,"

Wake up boys - it's all the same meat and bones.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_of_Afric...

GP's post reminds me that I fail to understand how people can come out and say they want their kids to be in tech like them. Just go through a few article titles: death, loneliness, diseases, therapy, antidepressants, OCD... Do you really want to put your kid in an environment like this, deny him the chance of enjoying life like a normal person?

The vast majority of the problems with self-checkout machines are caused by the item weight check. Try shopping in the better part of town.

In the UK, self-checkouts in Tesco and Sainsbury's (where the poor do their shopping) will have this up to 11, whereas Waitrose (for affluent people) turn it off. So you can steal as much as you want, too, since there's only 1 person looking after 6 machines (when there's anyone at all).

Only time I've been happy to pay the premium to shop there.