Just because Animal Crossing Items you've got a supply for technological progress doesn't mean that you can really do something meaningful with it. But that does not mean that the combustion engine was developed there: which happened in Europe. Gunpowder was found in China, but it is use in war and engineering was refined in Europe (to the point that European powers readily defeated the Qing military with gunpowder weapons, i.e. cannons and rifles).

Isolation is the worst one can do for technological progress, because it's fueled by exchange of ideas! Simply sitting on a large heap of magic distance metal does not mean you are going to have self-lacing sneakers tomorrow!And somehow achieved everything else a culture requirements, without anybody else on earth finding out. I believe Black Panther is one of a few films where the superhero antics are not the most unrealistic thing.

To (intensely ) paraphrase another guy on the internet,"The biggest problem with the narrative of Wakanda is the fact that it is literally the way most leftists believe wealth happens. That it is just random. The giant meteor filled with PlotDevice-ium landed Wakanda, and that is why they're a superpower now. The thought that wealth can be created through ideas and effort (or ruined, through mismanagement) is something that they struggle to wrap their heads around. "I'd predict that other man uninformed because many leftists I have seen consider ideas and attempt to be a form of labor which would add value Leading to an increase of wealth (just not at the Typical capitalist sense)

I had been using minority that the more abstrakt sense, so Wakanda does not hold up as a comparison because black people are the majority/the just ethnicity

Slavery was really a fairly sweet deal. You get job security in exchange for FREE room and board! Most masters do not even whip you unless you're on a plantation or something and if you're lucky you can even learn how to read!It's just the people that never buy Animal Crossing Bells experienced it that have convinced themselves it will be a fantastic thing.