Quotulatiousness

May 5, 2018

What’s Wrong With Wakanda?

Filed under: Africa, Economics, Media — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Foundation for Economic Education
Published on 3 May 2018

Wakanda could never exist in the real world.

Wakanda is frustrating because it perpetuates the myth that an abundance of a really valuable natural resource is all you need to create a prosperous and extremely advanced society. This is simply not true. Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, wrote about how isolationism actually leads to a regress in technology.

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