Successful countries are producers
By Victor Angula |
There are many characteristics which define a successful country or successful community. By “successful” I mean a country or community is doing well economically and socially.
On the other hand, unsuccessful nations or poor countries are consumers.
It is a law of nature that whoever does not produce but only consumes what has been produced by others, such person or such country will be poor.
Ever since the times of colonialism, we still continue with the culture of not wanting to produce. African countries don’t want to produce. People don’t want to produce – all they want is only to consume. To consume things produced in other countries.
Towns have no industrial areas. But they have many shopping complexes where all kinds of consumer products are sold, products made in other countries. Shops are full of goods and products, made in other countries.
For as long as we continue with this madness, we will remain poor and underdeveloped nations.
Innovative productivity is the way to go. High-tech manufacturing. Children must go to school and to university to learn how to produce, and not how to consume.
A lot of our wealth goes outside of the country to those societies who are producing the products we consume. And we don’t produce anything to sell to the outside world either.
Instead of using our natural resources to produce finished products, we sell the raw resources for peanuts, and we use the peanuts to buy consumer products.
Eventually, as our natural resources get depleted, there will be nothing to buy with the consumer products and other basic necessities of life.
Slowly we sink into deeper poverty.
– Victor Angula is the editor of Omutumwa News Online. victorangula@yahoo.com
