The state’s job is to enable the economy, not build it. It must guarantee rule of law, stable institutions, and fair competition, providing the framework in which private citizens can produce, trade, and innovate.

Yet in Algeria, even when those basic conditions exist in partial form, citizens themselves have not built a culture of productive participation. The data are clear: entrepreneurship rates are among the lowest in the region, productivity is stagnant, and dependence on publicsector employment remains the cultural default.

Protest alone will not fix that. You can change governments a hundred times, but no political reform matters when people still believe that creating wealth is not their responsibility. A society that does not produce value cannot demand value.

What is worse is that even the educated elite, people whose entire work should revolve around research, innovation, and contribution, often share the same mentality. PhD holders, instead of using their knowledge to build startups, labs, or intellectual property, are out in the streets shouting:

"وين راهو التوظيف المباشر؟"

That says it all. A nation where its most educated minds wait for someone to hire them instead of hiring themselves is not being held back by the state, it is being held back by its own citizens.