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Assuming all humans and populations of humans are interchangeable parts. We are not. Not so much "race" - which is a fairly idiotic concept as it's applied -- but hereditarianism is very much a real thing. IQ equates with life outcomes and is highly heritable. How people migrate (or are forced to migrate) can help you understand a population and population differences. Nigerians who immigrate to the U.S. now do far better than populations that were brought over during chattel slavery. Likely those who were captured by their neighbors and sold to European slavers had to lose battles of some variety. Selection effect. There are also documented differences between native populations in regions. Things like the harsh winter hypothesis pose that harsher environments lead to higher IQs. Otherwise, why doesn't every country look like Japan? If we don't diagnose the real problems societal interventions will fail to help anyone in a lasting/meaningful way.

having worked on AOSP for 3 years. I can attest most developers are capable but are not incentivized correctly. The appearance of improvement (demo quality code) is good enough in many circles to "complete" a project and move on. Net effect - the tragedy of the commons. Compound over a decade and 10-20 minute builds and 5-10 minute test time is the norm, and at that point even properly motivated - "would die for clean code" - sort of devs have a hard time. Put in place completing management chains all behaving the same (want to appear more productive/useful than others) and the mess is very hard to get out of. People were allowed/encouraged to cut corners I would let a junior dev cut on any project (duplicating resources from different parts of the build), building tool that demanded duplicate configuration, etc. Not a problem of capability (in some cases, yes, but rare), a broken selfish set of senior devs and leadership. Likely because it's not in google's interests for the project to be easy to work with/productive on. Open source washing was useful early on, now it's something of a liability. Only data gathered from devices and a little bit of cash from the play store are assets.