With the amount of resources that are spent every year on anything from building schools to distributing clean water and vaccines, saying “we don’t give a shit” is a bit of a stretch.
Then look a bit closer.
Who do you think drills the holes? European contractors.
Who pays for the staff working in the schools? Not Europe.
There is a ton of money being poured into development aid, absolutely. But that money is mostly wasted on administration and vanity projects.
At the same time, Africans get hardly any working visa for Europe. It would help dramatically to have a few million Africans working legally and safely in Europe and sending back billions in remissions. Instead, poor bastards have to risk their lives on overcrowded dingies and get sunk by the Greek coastguard (not an exaggeration, there’s video evidence).
Another point: coffee. The real value add in coffee is roasting. But roasted coffee has very high tariffs, so african countries only export cheap, unroasted coffee. There’s no reason for that - except that this might lead to cheaper coffee and could undercut European roasters.
Then look a bit closer.
Who do you think drills the holes? European contractors.
Who pays for the staff working in the schools? Not Europe.
There is a ton of money being poured into development aid, absolutely. But that money is mostly wasted on administration and vanity projects.
At the same time, Africans get hardly any working visa for Europe. It would help dramatically to have a few million Africans working legally and safely in Europe and sending back billions in remissions. Instead, poor bastards have to risk their lives on overcrowded dingies and get sunk by the Greek coastguard (not an exaggeration, there’s video evidence).
Another point: coffee. The real value add in coffee is roasting. But roasted coffee has very high tariffs, so african countries only export cheap, unroasted coffee. There’s no reason for that - except that this might lead to cheaper coffee and could undercut European roasters.