and there was a 9pm curfew every day. Photographs were illegal in the whole country, and there was a huge UN presence. We were advised by my hotel to be back by 4pm each day. Scary stuff. And everything is wildly expensive, $30 a meal etc!
As a consequence, investment decisions are not based on objective consideration of the relative merits of different types of workers, and expensive capital investment failures follow. For example, investments in robotics at Tesla slowed down production and its costly investment in robotics was removed ...