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LAND, LAND, LAND...WHY ARE WE SO OBSESSED?
Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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the last presidential debate spent a significant amount of time discussing land ownership and many proclaimed that "land is the primary means of production"
Have we forgotten that the wealthiest tribe in Kenya owns very little land? Indeed, many of them don't even own the houses they live in! Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 2/10/2010 Posts: 1,001 Location: River Road
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I also don't own any piece of land and I have no present intention of committing capital in an asset that produces little or no returns, yet I still make more money than my relatives who own land. In the 21st century a presidential candidate who thinks land is a key factor of production deserves retirement. I was actually disappointed a whole debate on the economy ended up discussing minimum wage and land instead of people skills, energy and increasing exports. We are doomed whoever wins very useless fellows
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/2/2011 Posts: 4,824 Location: -1.2107, 36.8831
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mukiha wrote:the last presidential debate spent a significant amount of time discussing land ownership and many proclaimed that "land is the primary means of production"
Have we forgotten that the wealthiest tribe in Kenya owns very little land? Indeed, many of them don't even own the houses they live in!
Which tribe is this, sir? Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.” ― Rashi
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 3/31/2008 Posts: 761 Location: Nairobi
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mukiha wrote:the last presidential debate spent a significant amount of time discussing land ownership and many proclaimed that "land is the primary means of production"
Have we forgotten that the wealthiest tribe in Kenya owns very little land? Indeed, many of them don't even own the houses they live in!
As they say, this is just an emotional issue and we got all our perceptions wrong. An agricultural economy like Kenya's is in a big way reliant on land as a factor of production. But we also know that in the event that land is scarce, we can develop other sectors of our economy coz truth be told, the productive land in Kenya is a very small % of the entire area....we ought not be so reliant on agriculture... When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty
of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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dunkang wrote:mukiha wrote:the last presidential debate spent a significant amount of time discussing land ownership and many proclaimed that "land is the primary means of production"
Have we forgotten that the wealthiest tribe in Kenya owns very little land? Indeed, many of them don't even own the houses they live in!
Which tribe is this, sir?
Think hard and you will figure it out for yourself... Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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mkonomtupu wrote:I also don't own any piece of land and I have no present intention of committing capital in an asset that produces little or no returns, yet I still make more money than my relatives who own land. In the 21st century a presidential candidate who thinks land is a key factor of production deserves retirement. I was actually disappointed a whole debate on the economy ended up discussing minimum wage and land instead of people skills, energy and increasing exports. We are doomed whoever wins very useless fellows
Wealth if found in the B.S., not the P/L... Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Member Joined: 5/19/2012 Posts: 552
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mukiha wrote:mkonomtupu wrote:I also don't own any piece of land and I have no present intention of committing capital in an asset that produces little or no returns, yet I still make more money than my relatives who own land. In the 21st century a presidential candidate who thinks land is a key factor of production deserves retirement. I was actually disappointed a whole debate on the economy ended up discussing minimum wage and land instead of people skills, energy and increasing exports. We are doomed whoever wins very useless fellows
Wealth if found in the B.S., not the P/L...
 For some of us wealth ni ile pesa tumeficha kwa mattress......... Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.... Leo Buscaglia
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Rank: Member Joined: 4/2/2011 Posts: 629 Location: Nai
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I am appalled by the general ignorance displayed by those arguing that land is not an important issue and therefore should not have been debated.
You cannot start debating the Kenyan economy without debating land (agriculture, livestock, tourism and now mining).
Kenya has 100% productive land. Only that a large percentage of that land is under utilised.
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Rank: Member Joined: 11/8/2012 Posts: 257
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Land will always be trevial as long as the Kenyan people view it as the only way of production.
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Rank: Member Joined: 5/13/2008 Posts: 558
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Kenyans Peculiar Habbits and obsession to free things are some of the reasons why land is emotive subject.
In last nights debate; top contenders said its a willing buyer,..willing seller. We all know the same people with money are the same ones with land.
Unless you make money elsewhere, enough to buy land, then you cant own land period.
Anyone hoping for free LAND, will be emotional till death.
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