Malawi - Ignoring the Rich Means Food on the Table · Jan 6, 11:01 AM
The hypocritical Rich Bastards who head western governments and the World Bank operate largely on the notion poor nations should remain poor by adopting strategies that said Rich Bastards wouldn’t use in their own countries. The US can’t shovel free money to farmers fast enough, yet they oppose the notion of jump-starting an economy by the injection of minuscule amounts of cash for supplies like seeds and fertilizer.
Oddly, they do seem to understand the notion of seeding a company through venture capital. Very strange.
The point of all this is to get you to read the story of Malawi, whose government said no thanks to the Rich Bastards and began to subsidize what the impoverished farmers needed most for their depleted soils—fertilizer. Wham, a little rain and fertile fields and suddenly Malawi is cranking out corn like an Iowan.
Why can’t progress toward a free market be seeded? Why can’t we analyze success for what it is? Why is there no opposition to the Rich Bastards’ goal of imposing losing strategies upon poorer countries, strategies they don’t impose on their own countries?
Oh, well, read: Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts
— Guido Veloce
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