Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Tomatoes and greed – the exodus of Ghana's farmers | DW Documentary" video.

  1. How exactly? They voluntarily chose to go to Italy.
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  2.  @torbenm2375  Ghana chose a communist for a leader once it got its independence while South Korea had a Pinochet-type for a dictator.
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  3. But it was technologically light years behind which the Arabs exploited to their advantage.
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  4. While socialism have consistently produced exactly what you hate capitalism for with the 1% being the government elites and their well-connected comrades and 99% being everyone else including even the useful idiot intellectuals and public sector workers that advocated it.
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  5.  @MrBemnet1  So it will only benefit the government and local industry elites?
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  6. And how did this cashless society work out for Cambodia when Pol Pot ran it?
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  7. But Ghana ended up being better off for it in the long run. Nkrumah set a negative precedent for post-independence Africa with bad leadership and even worse economic policies.
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  8. That's the fault of local governments and their lack of expertise, foresight, savvy, etc.
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  9. Too bad socialism didn't do Ghana much favors as Nkrumah's forced collective farming and price control ideas chased the farmers out and crippled the country.
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  10. Communism is even more of a sham.
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  11. Who? West Africa hardly had any White people let alone farmers to chase off. You mean Southern Africa.with Mugabe and the post-Mandela ANC.
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  12. It's not the West's fault that African leaders are short-sighted and only care about temporary gains.
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  13. No more than Latin Americans have, especially Central Americans.
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  14. Agreed.
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  15. Ditto for China.
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  16. The former. It's the leadership and its bad economic policies that are holding Africa back.
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  17. Socialism destroyed Africa.
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  18. God doesn't support laziness and ignorance.
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  19. Your governments only care about themselves and their regime loyalists. The people are expendable.
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  20.  @cgreen777  Prosperity made Europeans complacent.
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  21.  @hujambokorodani3448  Especially leftists for easy votes as Europeans have all but completely feminized, homosexualized and multiculturalized themselves into minority status if not out of existence.
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  22. Really? The only current African leader I know that is a Western puppet is Kagame. A lot of the rest are too busy selling their countries out to China like the Caribbean leaders.
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