Posted on 09/23/2023 4:33:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
So their populations will have an excuse to break into America to rape and pillage. The Gringos don’t care if the illegals are going to steal steal them blind for “a better life” in the Land of the Big Free Stuff Piñata.
Government corruption, camouflaged by ideological trappings.
I read a story about a fellow in Senegal who was a highly motivated entrepreneur. He was western educated and knew that his hometown could use a store a bit like Walmart, smaller of course but offering everything from groceries to hardware. He got financing and opened up shop. He failed within six months.
He ran afoul of a cultural norm he should have expected. Among the Senegalese, property anyone in your family has is expected to be shared. His “family” including third, fourth and fifth cousins simply carted his inventory away. The authorities considered such appropriation to be a family matter.
There seems to be no way to operate a business in Senegal unless one is an outsider or an orphan.
Singapore was benevolent socialism/dictatorship. Read “Third World to First”, given to me in Afghanistan, by Singaporean whose Harvard education was 100% paid for by the Singapore government.
Hernando de Soto (economist)It is amusing you write, "But you can't graft these western principles on to closed minded tribal thinking." I think it might be true today that "these Western principles" have been abandoned by the DC politicians and administrative state bureaucrats...Capitalism is essentially the economic system of poor people.
Then, when a poor person comes into some money (inheritance, insurance payout, lottery, whatever) they immediately spend it on:
1)A brand new car
2)Latest most expensive cellphone
3)Big-screen TV
4)other crap/”bling”
They won’t use it to pay off their debts, which would improve their 400 credit score.
Also helps that there aren’t months of cold weather to help weed out the ones incapable of planning.
It’s called The Bell Curve and it’s real.
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Lack of leadership... Lack of desire to become more...
Look at the ghetto as an example of the desire to become a poor country. No paint on the house but a Cadillac in the driveway... Smokin a ciggarello and looking around to see who is noticing them...
"The Birth of Plenty" is a term often associated with economic historian William J. Bernstein's book "The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created." In this book, Bernstein argues that four key factors are necessary and sufficient for the emergence of widespread prosperity and economic growth. These factors are often referred to as the "Four Pillars of Prosperity." They are:
Property Rights: Secure and well-defined property rights are essential for economic growth. When individuals and businesses have confidence that their property (including land, assets, and intellectual property) will be protected from theft and expropriation, they are more likely to invest and innovate.
Scientific Rationalism: A culture that values and promotes scientific inquiry and rational thinking is critical for technological progress. This includes support for education, research, and the application of scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
Capital Markets: Efficient and accessible capital markets enable individuals and businesses to access funding for investment and entrepreneurship. Well-functioning financial institutions, such as banks and stock markets, are crucial for allocating capital to its most productive uses.
Transportation and Communication: Effective transportation and communication networks facilitate the movement of goods, people, and information. Modern infrastructure, including roads, ports, railways, and the internet, plays a vital role in connecting markets and promoting economic growth.
Bernstein argues that these four pillars are necessary and sufficient because they create an environment conducive to economic development and innovation. When these conditions are met, economies tend to flourish and experience what he calls "The Birth of Plenty."
Because people like Bill and Hillary collect billions to give to poor nations and then abscond with the funds. It’s the ‘big secret’ behind foreign aid - our tax dollars are supposedly sent to secure clean drinking water or food etc. and then it either never leaves the US (divided among Deep Staters) or fans out to oligarchs all over the world.
Year after year - the same pleas for the villagers to have clean drinking water...
Inbreeding leading to low IQs across the population.
Singapore had and has elements of proprietorship, rather than socialism.
Of course, this distinction depends on what is meant by “socialism.” The word has been quite elastic since it was invented. Marx defined it as government ownership of the means of production. Toward the end of the 20th Century, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, socialism came to mean extensive government regulation of the private sector combined with extensive redistribution of the wealth. Now, people like Bernie Sanders say the Nordic countries are socialist, when according to the people who have been trying to measure the degree to which an economy is centrally-planned versus market-oriented, the Nordic countries are as or more market-oriented than the U.S. (Sanders, by the way, honeymooned in the Soviet Union, not in a Nordic country.)
Turning to Singapore, it is reckoned to be the most free economy in the world (by this measure, 83.9; notice, even though the freest in the world, the score is well below 100).
https://www.heritage.org/index/country/singapore
As to what I describe as “proprietary” elements, the founding and long-time dominant party of the country was and is highly-invested in the economy, and therefore highly interested in its success. For an island-country totally dependent on trade and international investment, this means keeping industry competitive and not regulated.
Add to the orientation of the country to success, the tendency of the government to censor dissent, including anything it deems injurious to the peace of the island-country, and it’s not exactly comparable to western democratic capitalist countries.
You can list those things but the number one reason societies flourish is the moral character of its citizens. What happens to a country without a conscience? We’re about to find out. Wake me when you see a criminal express remorse for their crimes!
Why do poor countries always stay so poor???? Because of the graft and corruption that is now happening in the US political system. With signs that it is only going to get worse. This is what happens when a country kicks THE GOD OF CREATION OUT.
The African elephant in the room.
Rd later.
Thanks for posting.
If only high school kids would read articles like this...
Race culture politics
Chicken egg
What’s downstream of what
Whites basically via Christianity culture and populations pressure and resource coveting and trade conquered or civilized the world more than anyone else
Folks used to understand this
Now we’re blamed for it even as they still depend on us
You can argue the whys forever but to any empirical observer you can see which groups have outperformed others even sub groups in the groups
The NWO types wish to erase all this with themselves as elite overlords
The dacha class
I heard Thomas Sowell say yesterday pretty much
“Human nature would prefer poverty and equal over some doing better than you”
Good performing groups have certain characteristics
Emphasis on family like where I live
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