The average wage in Nigeria is about $25 per day [1]. The fundamental difference between Wyoming and West Africa is cost of living.
[1] https://www.timedoctor.com/blog/average-salary-in-nigeria/
Extractive industry is such a job creator there that for decades now, e.g. McDonalds couldn't keep enough people on hand. Why would I work a shitty job for minimum wage, when I could work another, similarly shitty job, for 4 times that amount?
Extractive industry is such a job creator in Wyoming that they actively resist e.g. renewable energy projects that would provide economic stability during inevitable bust years, because it challenges the concept of extractive industry, even as extractive industry generates the boom/bust cycle.
Southern Wyoming doesn't even have fucking Uber, you really think they're starving for gig-sector jobs like this?
Much ballyhooing about “neo-colonialism” followed.
