Bamboo well pump - GIF

[CharlesWaugh]

The 'Poverty Trap' is brutal.

They only have their own time to spend instead of money.

It takes three of them a half hour to pump the same amount of water any one of us could pump by flipping a switch for 30 seconds.
Their time is spent in very low-level tasks, which devours their time, which is the only true riches we have (as far as building civilization).

Sigh . . . it is truly a broken world.