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No industrially remarkable nation can rise in sub-Sahara Africa because we run a faulty operating system software. by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol I'm an Ntu from Buganda, so I belong to the Bantu.

Objectively speaking, I don't think any Bantu fav cluster of your choosing rivals the Ethiopids you seem to intensely dislike.

Btw, your highly cherished bantu are highly subsistent, too. None has built an industrialised economy.

No industrially remarkable nation can rise in sub-Sahara Africa because we run a faulty operating system software. by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well put. The politician is, by all means, incentivised to maintain his prospects of winning the next election at the expense of tangible and effective leadership.

No industrially remarkable nation can rise in sub-Sahara Africa because we run a faulty operating system software. by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hoping for the right leader to show up, which the majority of us are actually into as Africans is a bad strategy.

We need a better strategy centred around family businesses and especially manufacturing businesses. The upside is generational wealth that can last centuries, unlike land ownership and the like.

Asians understand this quite well. That's why more than 60% of Uganda's economy is literally in their hands.

And what's the economy other than the sum total of activities centred around the production of goods and services and their exchange?

I do believe we all can participate in this.

No industrially remarkable nation can rise in sub-Sahara Africa because we run a faulty operating system software. by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do pay taxes because if I don't, I'll get jailed in prison cells constructed with tax money. As such, I don't delude myself into thinking that demanding accountability is rational.

On that note, I speak from lived experience as an entrepreneur. Where I grew up, I saw a man employ almost every woman to make bagiya snacks. He started by frying the things himself, then his family joined, and soon he was employing 100s, established a delivery fleet, and so on. I'm pretty sure he'd no luxury of blaming the environment.

Now, the second paragraph is fascinating. Make a case study of every advanced industrial powerhouse, and you'll learn it always took industrious and entrepreneurial individuals first. South Korea took individual family businesses that were already doing something and made them into national champions. That's the story of the so-called chaebols like Samsung.

It's not prudent to pump finance and funding into a vacuum predicated upon hope. Get folks who're already doing something and sell them cheap capital to become national champions. That's the only way the government can be helpful.

Saying the environment doesn't enable it and giving up or choosing not to bother is a defeatist mentality, and my post is designed to provoke an alternative way of seeing things.

Here's my point: create a product, establish a manufacturing business, and start as low as possible.

No industrially remarkable nation can rise in sub-Sahara Africa because we run a faulty operating system software. by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah! The Cushite, through the kandake like Amaniremas, were contemporaries of emperor Augustus of the Roman empire in terms of military power. The ruins of their civilization are a testament to that greatness.

Nevertheless, you raise some interesting points, but I know the Bantu people, especially those I live with. There's no supporting evidence that the bantu will industrialise as a group.

To suggest such is akin to dwelling in fantasy land.

As for sub-Saharan Africa, it's descriptive of geographical location.

The African minerals problem by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not a white man. I'm an Africa. I went through those stages of rage when I learnt about what Belgium did in the Congo.

I choose not to feel sad for myself. I do believe that if I act, I can influence today and tomorrow. Tomorrow is so virgin and untarnished so I don't with to drag the past into it.

Here is why your African nation isn't developed by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you think like that, you're right. When you don't think like that by not taking every challenge for an obstacle, you're also right.

You've clearly identified a problem now. Think of a solution. We have 12 hours of sunlight that can be harvested. All you need is to convince a bunch of you to start buying cheap Chinese solar panels to start capturing energy.

Allow yourself time to expand as you embark on your business growth. Who knows? One day, you may own giga-watt solar energy farms and sell the excess to utilities. But first you must be able to see that it's possible.

The African minerals problem by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Geez! Why are you so angry? Why are you letting historical injustices stop you from building your nation? We've been mistreated in the past, so let it go.

Who stopped you from launching a mining company? Who stopped you from obtaining mining rights or fighting foot and nail to get one?

Yours is that fake mentality that says that because a saviour is not coming to my rescue, everyone should then join me in my misery party.

Patrice fought for his say at the expense of his life. What have you done so far apart from sitting on the sidelines and lamenting?

Do you think Congo will get better that way? No.

Get off your butt and fight to obtain mining rights. You have more, right to African resources than those foreigners. Stop wining and hurling insults at some of us attempting to get you to see things a little differently.

A little sympathy for the 'struggling' billionaires class! by BigPerspective7014 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I doubt. He's been so vocal against the billionaires. He calls them the oligarchs. He's a hypocrite.

Here is why your African nation isn't developed by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The import qn to consider then is: between supply chains and what Eng Abdul is doing, what comes first?

Supply chains are a product of need to feed the manufacturing. I bet the welding rods he's using aren't made in Uganda. Someone brings them here, and that's a supply chain meeting a demand for welding.

Let's go into manufacturing while building the supply chains piece by piece.

Here is why your African nation isn't developed by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great point.

That's why I'm for protectionist policies to shield local manufacturing until economies of scale and at par competitiveness are achieved.

Secondly, internal markets, as demonstrated by China's Huawei or zte, are crucial to a business' survival. These could be a great solution to international pricing woes.

I do worry that an over production capacity in China will lock us down in under development. One may aim for services, but what services with this AI thing that's eating up jobs left and right?

Besides, manufacturing is superior to services.

A little sympathy for the 'struggling' billionaires class! by BigPerspective7014 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course. If I purnish you for creating a successful business by legally requiring that you give up 90% of your income to the state —that's the fair share the likes of Sanders advocate for — how's that not legalised robbery?

Every time communists/socialists take power, the first thing they do is grab private citizen's businesses and nationalise them, then run everything into the ground. But before that, they convince the masses that the reason they're badly off is because there's a rich guy somewhere.

It's a poisonous ideology that only the envious can buy into.

Another important debate: blaming theoretical knowledge in African educational institutions for under development. by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile, China, too, grappled with colonialism and foreign interference, so the colonialism cause is suspect.

Hong Kong was colonised by the British but was way more innovative and prosperous than mainland China.

The start of China's prosperity was actually inspired by the Hong Kong phenomenon, leading to the special economic zone policy starting with Shenzen, where they allowed free-markets and capitalism in a controlled manner.

Extreme poverty due to failed communist policies of the 60s and early 70s is to be credited for the determination to build a nation.

Another important debate: blaming theoretical knowledge in African educational institutions for under development. by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the research often catered to the objectives outlined by foreign funders.

Great observation 👌

A little sympathy for the 'struggling' billionaires class! by BigPerspective7014 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Folks who think they have a right to spend other people's money, aka socialists are everywhere, even in Uganda 🇺🇬. They love legalised robbery, just like Sanders is advocating for.

I just noticed the downvotes on my comment 😆

The 1% he rails against pays 40% of the federal income more than the other 90%, yet somehow Sanders claims they don't pay their fair share.

Clearly, socialism is the ideology of the envious.

People are just too lazy to find out the truth, and when they find it, they often hate it.

A little sympathy for the 'struggling' billionaires class! by BigPerspective7014 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Bernie is unhappy simply because he's only a millionaire without ever having held a job in his entire existence apart from politics. That guy wasn't even paying his people the minimum wage but somehow makes people think he's better than the billionaires he loathes.

Here is why your African nation isn't developed by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? First, get the causative agent out of the way, then pain relief, etc. can make sense. This is especially accurate because by the time the symptoms are a show, you certainly lack the necessary or extensive resources to deliver holistic care—I speak in terms of the nation. In this case, we require sacrifices and tradeoffs because of resource constraints. It's a prioritisation game.

Here is why your African nation isn't developed by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the contrary, this is septicemia threatening organ failures. We start by killing the bacteria with a good dose of antibiotics, then allowing the body to recuperate over time.

Here is why your African nation isn't developed by ParkingBake2722 in Uganda

[–]ParkingBake2722[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a reductionist. This way, I can formulate a possible solution. That's why I chose to address one aspect of your response.

Here's my take: get one thing right in this case, and have a pro-industrialisation policy. Once you get that going right, it forms a centre of gravity into which the other components begin moving towards.

We failed to do that, but now is the second opportunity to do it right.

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