> 1. Never underestimate developing countries' governments' willingness to absolutely bend their people over to extract tax revenue (and then their corrupt representatives extract bribes on top of it)

As a Brazilian with a love for electronics and DIY, I feel this pain every day.

In regard to number 1, it really is such a hard problem to get money and aid to those that need it. Autocrats and every person with power along the way is happy to pocket it.

All governments.

And if you bypass their abuse, you're a "smuggler", shamed on by the press.

> We are so spoiled in the West.

We are the beneficiaries of the imperialism that leads to places like Uganda being dragged into a global marketplace to then be exploited.

Django's gratitude isn't noble, it's sad. Look at the quality of life difference between him and the average Brit whose nation held his as a protectorate until the 60s - the only industrialize tolerated for nearly a century being cotton and coffee cash crop export infrastructure.

It's still commodity dependent this day, and imbalanced power structures established by the colonial government means that there's a prize of total national power for anyone who can take over the government, leading to near endless conflict.

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Yeah, because surely 1 only happens in "developing countries" /s