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masukuma wrote:How to Create Starvation in 2016 - The story of VenezuelaQuote:In 2016, we finally have such a system in place, one capable of supporting 7.4 billion people. It’s so robust at this point that the developed world has the opposite problem of obesity, which, in the course of social evolution, is a nice problem to have.
The creation of this system – which you can see on display at any grocery store in your own neighborhood – defied the expectations of legions of doubters in the 19th century. Population was booming beyond belief. How would they be fed? Most intellectuals couldn’t imagine how it could happen.
And yet it did. So complex, well developed, and productive is the global market for food that it turns out to be extremely hard to break the system. To create starvation in 2016 requires extraordinary effort. It requires a comprehensive system of coercion that attacks all the institutions that make abundance possible: ownership, international trade, an adaptive price system, the right of commercial innovation. Quote:Look around Venezuela and what you see is the end of everything we call civilization. Cops have to guard bakeries? Delivery trucks carrying food have to be escorted by armed guards? Wuh, si am shocked Venezuela has sank this low depsite being one of the largest oil producers globally.
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/9/2015 Posts: 233
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Mnakataa nini. The alternative failed with his half loaf before. That one has Kenya scared of misbehaviour by his community. I had a tenant completely refuse to pay rent for three months and when things came to a head. Ati Rao is coming to pay his rent after becoming prezo. Then PEV happened. Bad experience "Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own."
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,823 Location: Nairobi
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Intelligentsia wrote:masukuma wrote:How to Create Starvation in 2016 - The story of VenezuelaQuote:In 2016, we finally have such a system in place, one capable of supporting 7.4 billion people. It’s so robust at this point that the developed world has the opposite problem of obesity, which, in the course of social evolution, is a nice problem to have.
The creation of this system – which you can see on display at any grocery store in your own neighborhood – defied the expectations of legions of doubters in the 19th century. Population was booming beyond belief. How would they be fed? Most intellectuals couldn’t imagine how it could happen.
And yet it did. So complex, well developed, and productive is the global market for food that it turns out to be extremely hard to break the system. To create starvation in 2016 requires extraordinary effort. It requires a comprehensive system of coercion that attacks all the institutions that make abundance possible: ownership, international trade, an adaptive price system, the right of commercial innovation. Quote:Look around Venezuela and what you see is the end of everything we call civilization. Cops have to guard bakeries? Delivery trucks carrying food have to be escorted by armed guards? Wuh, si am shocked Venezuela has sank this low depsite being one of the largest oil producers globally. people should not take it onto themselves to plan for others - wacha watu wajipange! When government increasingly fights a free market and wins... then it comes a time when it cannot support all this added responsibility - people suffer! Let guys figure out distribution of stuff they need. it works out even when the state is not there. All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/24/2011 Posts: 407 Location: Nairobi,Kenya
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masukuma wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:
at times one gets the feeling that the reason we seem to always be on our back-foot is because the middle and upper class honestly have no idea what the common man goes through, if there was some way say, private hospitals were banned, same for private schools and private security firms, if bylaws existed and enforced that made it illegal to fence your house. If somehow it became the law of the country that all elected leaders, cabinet secretaries e.t.c were required to spend say one year in the cheapest housing areas, maybe they could make things happens.
maybe they think we all eat cake, maybe they think if they call demos and we are teargassed and washed with the filthy water, we go to our homes get nice hot showers and then visit our personal doctors for checkups incase of any beating by cops.
maybe we should not blame them
it's been tried before... they call it communism. People need to read\study Political theory to fully grasp this concepts of Capitalism,Communism etc.because they are all related and one develops into the other.Karl Marx theories are still applicable here.We cannot simply wish away private ownership of property..its just not possible.Even those in presumed socialist economies like Tz\China et al,secretly wish they could own property.I think Kenya is on the right track,undoubtedly the middle class has grown immensely in numbers as compared to the 60s.We could do better and we have our share of challenges but we are way off better than we were before.And again in comparison with most of Africa,we are doing well.However our Politics is really our major undoing.It is too self centered and selfish.For Example We rarely hear our politicians informing the citizenry of the need to have a clean enviroment.This has led many Kenyan towns to be extremely dirty with garbage all over.Just visit Arusha and see how clean the city has become.The leaders are always emphasizing on clean enviroment despite the politics. Hope is not a strategy
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Rank: Member Joined: 8/15/2015 Posts: 817
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its do or die for raila this time, he will do anything to get into state house.
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/24/2010 Posts: 637 Location: Nairobi
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Cornelius Vanderbilt wrote:its do or die for raila this time, he will do anything to get into state house. What has he done of late wise one.Any threat to Muthamaki?? The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/9/2015 Posts: 233
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Keeping his cards close to his chest for now. But soon he will have to play one more. "Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own."
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