What excerpt are you talking about? Because personally I can hear him saying "it didn't make them brave, it made them lazy" when talking about the peasants. Around 7'45 in the video.
exactly is this passage right? But it must be placed in its context and not extracted to express a point of view cut off from it.
quote:
"the solution that we brought to the peasants, we gave them water, fertilizer, and pesticides and we chewed up their work, we made them lazy, not brave, we made them lazy. .."
it is therefore a simple text analysis linked to the previous context, namely the plant to which
we gave them water, fertilizer, and pesticides not provided, but given as one gives a bottle to a baby, food and care,
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we chewed up their work,"how giving the products mentioned would chew up the work of the peasants since, on the contrary, it requires them to work more than not giving them and finally
we made them lazy, not brave, we made them lazy..." therefore it concerns the plants, not the peasants. All that one can reproach (but this is not a well-prepared conference here), but from a direct and therefore clumsy point of view , if interpreted hastily and out of context.
"We make science with facts, like making a house with stones: but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré
