Paying the price of selfishness
By Victor Angula /
When a society is selfish, people pay the price. And the price for selfishness is suffering, hunger and death.
Right now the Namibian society is one society which is paying the price for selfishness.
Unemployment is one of the most significant symptoms of a society paying for its own selfishness.
As high unemployment continues to rise, leading to abject poverty, hunger and death for a lot of people, a lot other people continue to grow rich, grow fat and grow in their disregard for their fellow human being.
Those who have jobs don’t care to think about those who don’t have jobs, nor worry about those who don’t have anything to eat.
If anything, they will throw some crumbs in the form of “corporate social investment”. They would rather give some fish away to others, instead of letting others learn how to fish.
Instead of doing business with SMEs, so that these upcoming enterprises may employ more and more people, those who control the economic cake would rather do business within their own circles, closing the door and refusing to diversify the economy.
The result is high unemployment and high levels of poverty in a country so rich in natural resources.
If there is any shame in the world, this is it. Shame to the people of Namibia. Shame to the leaders, policymakers, and everyone who is in a position of any significance in the Namibian society.
When children of poor people keep roaming the streets, shame to those who are in a position to rectify the situation but they cannot because of their selfishness. When more than half of the people live in shacks in a country of such abundant wealth, shame to the system created through selfishness.
But they will never feel the shame. Selfish people cannot feel shame. They are too selfish to be concerned about such things as collective shame.
Therefore suffering and death is the price Namibia has to pay for selfishness.
– Victor Angula is the editor of Omutumwa News Online. victorangula@yahoo.com
