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What the hell is a GDP any way? its the total of all goods , produced or exchanged divided by the number of population , a meaningless world bank mumbo jumbo, in America one of the supposedly richest countries in the world where 90% of its wealth is owned by by the top 10% , its poor population are made rich by cooking the accounting books of this GDP formula by dividing the wealth of Bill Gates and the Koch brothers among the poor single mothers on welfare to give the illusion that everybody in America earns 40k a year loool.
Exactly. It comes from being nomads. Always satisfied with just getting by. That's not a way to live, you have to have ambition and invest in the future for the sake of posterity. There's a famous story where a Caliph and his retinue are riding past an olive grove and he spots an old man planting an olive tree. The Caliph is amused and asks why the old man is wasting his time and energy planting the tree because he will surely die before it reaches maturity (olive trees took years to grow). The old man replies that if the previous generation didn't plant anything, he'd be starving right now and it's only right for him to also provide for the next generation. The Caliph likes this answer, rewards the old man with gold and tell his men to help the old man.Somaliland should look at Taiwan on how to be resourceful and self-sufficient as a nation with limited recognition. There needs to be some sort of cultural revolution, where being competitive and not settling for the bare minimum is a mentality ingrained amongst our people.
That's a very Buddist answer. Bro what you're suggesting is nothing short of Utopia. There will never be such a system because man will always want what his brother has and more. No doubt our ancestors thought they were wealthy kings but that changed in the face of British and italian bayonets and modern warfare. We will not be caught sleeping again. We must not. This system is here for the time being and it is in our bet interest to either cleverly manipulate it to our favour like the east Asians or develop another alternative.Its indeed not an easy question, billions of people and 100's of nations are struggling with this question. The system itself needs a poor exploited majority to function, haven't you heared the Wall Street term " the market needs a fool to function". Our problems are not inherent but its caused by this very system we aspire to copy. 100 years ago , our ancestor never saw themselves as poor, because they valued things differently, their wealth was tangible , horses, camels, sheep, women and children and living among their kins, that's was their wealth. Today we are made to value things according to the capitalist formula. We have to have nice cars, we have to have great house, we have to have glittery things so that we can boast and brag to our neighbour that we are better then him.
Karl Paul Polanyi the forefather of " economic democracy" and one of the men most capitalist love to be unnoticed , puplorized what was natural to humans but the capitalist choose to ignore and that is " humans are averse to work for others and they are mostly coerced and when humans make enough he is more likely to work less and less eventually choosing to enjoy life", the key word is that " enough", in a capitalist society the system is rigged that so the majority of us are made never to have that " enough" other wise no one will keep working for the capitalist class . Similarly nations too are made to never have enough of anything that will make their population free to enjoy life.
What we need in Somaliland and in Africa and the entire world post-free market capitalism is a new system of making and trading goods not for profit but for beyond profit. We can have a house , a little patch of land that's enough for all of us, we can build nice hospitals roads and all without profits as motive, and once that evil profit is taken out of our way of thinking we can be free for real. The only reason why most people and nations are "poor" is due to the theory of profit " one man wins it all" for what???? just so he can brag to his neighbour that he has more.
Karl Paul Polanyi discovered that in a village where all men have relatively the same standard of wealth , be it in huts or in cows most people are happy and never see themselves as poor, but as soon a man comes and builds a mansion in that neighbourhood of huts , everybody becomes poor and sad, a thing most diaspora somalilanders do to their people back home today. You see been poor, is subjective , people become poor when they compare themselves to the rich, and we in Somaliland are exactly doing that.
My vision for the future is actually quite unconventional and extremely ambitious,What we need is much deeper then what gurey or the kid who created this thread aspire to.
NOAnd 300% tax rate on qat would help as a deterent as well as put some cash in the treasury.
no im afraid not, the export model is over, it only came into existance due to the cold war, the desire to prop up asian countries to prevent communism which was very popular and also the desire for the corporation for more profit and more political power.This system is here for the time being and it is in our bet interest to either cleverly manipulate it to our favour like the east Asians or develop another alternative.
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