This is the beginning of November and a horde of more than 10,000 people are travelling from Central America to the U.S.
Some people have suggested that these people should turn around, overthrow their own governments and create their own decent economic society like ours.
This is where my analysis in The Most Important Book in Human History comes into play. Few people understand why this horde can not go back and re-create the U.S. The U.S. was an anomaly.
A modern commercial society requires widespread meritocracy. All Latin American countries have extensive hereditary elites that blocks meritocracy. I have seen this in Guatemala where the elite all live in one neighborhood. Nobody knows how to get rid of an hereditary elite. Communists in
Russia, China, Cuba and Cambodia have tried by murdering them. That seems to have failed.
America was an accident of a large continent and World War II that promoted meritocracy. England had the far reaches of an empire, where the meritocratic sons were sent to be administrators. Israel has a unique military that is hi-tech and needs meritocracy.
We have no answers. Chile may be an example of open commercial markets bringing jobs and modernity to an otherwise traditional ‘patron’ society. Chileans get modernity but no innovation.
No one has an answer, that I know of.