Comments by "Omer عمر" (@Omer1996E.C) on "" video.

  1. Even if the farmers are back, it won't work in the long run the state itself is too bad. Corruption, over-taxations, over-regulations, populism above all, elitist government, etc... It won't work unless the government revolutionizes itself. This is a state-building project.
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  2. As an African, let me ask you this: are the locals really the problem? Then why aren’t the Chinese exploiting the land? Why aren't American agro-corporations (those "patent cartels") rushing in to farm it? Simple. The state is the real culprit. In Zimbabwe: — BY LAW, locals can’t lease their land to get loans for equipment or fertilizer. — They can’t sell land to anyone but the state. — The state owns all land, and most finance too. — You can’t partner with outsiders without government approval. — You’re forced to sell your crops to the state. How do you invest in that? How do you grow? The system is designed to strangle initiative. You can’t even climb without feeding dozens of bureaucratic whales along the way. This isn’t just mismanagement. It’s sabotage. So no—don’t blame the farmers, black or white. Blame the system Zimbabwe is what happens when a nation is brilliantly failed, by design, by its own rulers.
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  3. ​​​​​​​​ @alexiel4406  they obviously have a hope, but not under their current administration. Just thinking 'Zimbabwe' mentally exhausts me from the amount of things to fix there.
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  4. ​​​ @alexiel4406  agree. In statistics, you can have infinite trials, but in the case of Zimbabwe, the state is more likely to collapse in the long run. But every time in history, someone breaks the chain. Whether it's the chain of failures or chain of successes. I still have hopes. Bro, I'm from a country doing worse than Zimbabwe in many ways, and I have hopes and more than just hopes... cuz here I am equipping myself with knowledge about state-craft, politics, justice, policies, etc... cuz I have a dream
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  5. ​ @trueseeing  what's "worked?" Is it when only a minority benefits? Like the 5% of Rhodesia or the 7% of Apartheid? If so, then even Zimbabwe "worked" in some way. You missed the point where this is a country, not a corporation with shareholders
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  6. As an african, this effort is great on paper, if it's not covertly corrupt. This is because such a project will encourage the government to actually build infrastructures and reduce corruption, raise the standards (because africans are always used to low quality public services), make the economy more liberalised to its own people, because our african government are more prohibitive to us than the chinese, for example. In short, it's good on paper, not actually, because of corruption, which will upset everything
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  7. Citizens are not shareholders, because the state is not meant to create value, but to preserve it, the creators of value are the individuals and groups of that state. That's one difference between a state and a corporation, a shareholder and a citizen. ​ @AndyFromBeaverton 
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  8. Here's a better idea: invite Dutch, Brazilian, Chinese and Spanish agriculturalists to teach and work with Zimbabwean under/post graduates, who are more unemployed in Zimbabwe than the so called "uneducated." Then, make these Zimbabweans go and solve the problems, or at least report them to their foreign teachers. I don't think the EU would refuse if you told them that the Chinese will take their opportunities otherwise. BUT all these are solutions after the main structural improvement. Stop communism and let citizens fully own their lands, stop state control and let capital flow out and in freely, stop the greed and remove/reduce most taxes that aren't doing their jobs anyway, stop the paranoia of unrest and let the people work less regulated.
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  9. ​ @ManUMinute  No! Don't feed the gators. Maybe remove sanctions, for th sake of the people, but NEVER give loans. This corrupt government will fo the same as my country's did. They'll take the money to their pockets and tax the people or privatise our souls to repay the debts, and they'd ask us to thank them because without them, we would've found ways to sell our kidneys.
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  10. Certainly, as we can see ​ @2200Stinger 
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  11. ​ @benrex7775  populism is something relatively old now in Zimbabwe, but these populists, although old, are still mostly alive and in power. Elitist, as these populists themselves, after consolidating their powers, are helping their allies to power. And when I say "helping," it's more than just helping. (As they influence ballots for their allies as well). Extreme corruption
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  12. ​Do you know that ​Zimbabweans are not allowed to borrow by their lands, sell their lands, build on their lands, because by law, the state owns all lands, and controls all funds directly, by law, crops are sold to the government only, etc... If I was in their place, I'd leave my farmland to rot and I'd leave it as a savings. My argument stands, the state is the problem. At lease allow for the sale of lands and using them as a collateral for borrowing. I'm an african, my countryis poorer than Zimbabwe, I studied all the problems. And the main, if not the only major problem is the state, either over requiring or under delivering, all while it could in reality.  @Fich-j4b 
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  13. So, rhodesia was just a farmland? No court, no law, no education, no nothing? ​ @trueseeing 
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  14. "What's capitalism?"​ is a question I ask everyone who dislikes free market (free market is not necessarily capitalism in my understanding), as free market is the oldest and most natural market in existence.  @view1st 
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