For the past few weeks I've been watching this youtube channel called Dangerous roads, where a French camera crew go around and film riding along with truck drivers through Africa. I've always wondered why they cant get their shit together, they are using rail lines and railcars built 100 yrs ago when European countries took them over. I watched hundreds of people stuck on the side of road for 3 weeks because there was a huge hole in the road. 100's of able bodied men just standing around crying about it instead of doing something. Lack of capitol from banks? Corruption? What the fuck is it? I hope the Chinese do go in and help out, not going to hold my breath though. I do see a lot of similarities to the American black people, where they have access to free education, capitol, resources, etc... and still chose to live the thug life in the ghetto.
Anyways, do you think giving grants or loans to people like this lady, to inventors or entrepreneurs, could this be the answer for them? just need a little start up money. Could that be the solution for the American black population as well?
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(cool)
We think that you are a deranged person.
(sounds retarded)
Me too!
(Long Spike)
exploitation. take any of theses places. if they have rare earth elements, we've been manipulating the place one way or another to secure our interests since we left. if its got a regime we don't like, we'll back a coup. don't have the money for it? we'll take drugs from one country and sell them in our own for it
(sounds retarded)
Thats what I thought as that is what we are told but if that was the case then why are we not building roads to extract the resources? In one episode they were mining lithium, I think, and it was very crude and inefficient.
(Long Spike)
your thinking like a consumer instead of a capitalist
more roads means more resources on the market which means the price of that resource drops. if you had any money invested in that resource, building roads means you make less money. its in your best interest to buy every mine you can and to not extract anything unless you can place the resource
(sounds retarded)
Hmmm, sad. I once worked with a Algerian refugee, it was 17 yrs ago and I thought he said Nigeria but when writing this I remembered what he said about diamonds everywhere and looking it up, it must have been Algeria he said he was from because Nigeria doesnt have diamonds. Anyways, he told me how the country had diamonds everywhere, as a kid he'd find them on the side of the road sometimes, everyone had them, lots of people mined them, but no one was allowed to sell them outside of the country, massive penalties if caught. in the Madagascar episode of deadliest roads the locals were trying to smuggle heartwood trunks out of the country and the govt would tear up the roads to stop people from harvesting the trees. Do you think it is like that for most resources in Africa? The govt prevents the natives from profiting off the resources?
(Long Spike)
each place has its own reasons. madagascar's reason is that the rosewood is going extinct
do i think its like that in africa? well, america is preventing iran from selling its oil to other countries. so i think it's like that all over the world. the reasons for it might be justified for health or environmental reasons but it still happens. doesn't have to be governments, it could be business'
(Old Spike)
Lol 10 metric tons of plastic every month, i used to push 10 tons of cheese a day into a machine, and that was just my daytime job.