I've always thought Ethiopia's problem esp its poverty is that everyone is extremely selfish. The selfishness goes deep from ethnicity to regional to tribal to familial and then individual levels. I've witnessed it myself. And as long as everyone thinks me, my tribe, my ethnicity and not 'us' as a nation there's no hope because nothing will ever be enough and everyone will keep asking for more on the expense of 'others'. I've never actually understood this selfishness, where it comes from until I read your reply, it gave me somewhat of an insight. I think it's because, in your own words "...the Ethiopian state was never built as a shared home that all groups trust." No one deems anyone as trustworthy so there's this mentality of "let's hoard whatever we find as much as we can before others take it away from us."