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> "Africa is poor thanks to statism. Not due to some "evil american corporates" That can be rectified. It could very easily be poor thanks to both.
by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Africa is poor thanks to statism. Not due to some "evil american corporates"
That can be rectified. It could very easily be poor thanks to both.
- shakyshakyshaky 7y agovery reductive to say that africa is poor due to statism and not centuries of imperialism, both actual and economic
- darkpuma 7y agoThe point, that I pray you aren't missing by being deliberately obtuse, is that for as bad as things may be today it's possible for things to become worse. And giving American corporations free reign to run social experiments in Africa, like creating their own currency, is a quick path to discovering ways to make it worse.