LOL. Back in the early seventies, there was a program in the engineering department at Chico State that turned into a foreign aid program. At the time, passive bicycle technology was the rave and engineering students were working on all sorts of bicycle tech to save labor and generate energy. For example, the bicycle powered TV was the answer to widespread cardiac problems among couch potatoes. LOL.
Anyway, someone came up with a bicycle apparatus that included a bin and spouts on both sides at the bottom. You could throw a bunch of raw corn right from the stalk into the top and the cobs and leaves would shoot out one side and the corn kernels on the other. So, they found a tribe in Africa and gave two of the machines to them. The idea was, if they could save all the time they put into shucking corn, they could be doing other things to improve the tribal economy and living standard.
They went back to check on them a year later. The tribe was in total chaos, violence and vendetta everywhere. The whole social structure had been interrupted.
This is what happened: the women of the tribe would sit around all day in a big circle, chat, gossip and shuck corn while the men were out working the land and hunting in organized packs. What the women were actually doing was social engineering—settling arguments, arranging marriages, dispersing wealth among families after the death of a family head, all in a mutually agreeable, democratic way.
When they brought in the machines, it only took four people in two shifts to shuck the tribal corn. And the group of women dispersed into their own personal pursuits.
And the tribe nearly fell apart.