Elon Musk did not become a different person when he landed in America.
In South Africa, he may still have been brilliant, restless, and ambitious, but the environment would not have given him the same room to build SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and everything else.
Talent matters. The country you build in decides how much of that talent can become real.
People talk about âThe Economyâ like itâs some giant machine in the sky that experts need to control.Â
Itâs not. The economy is just the sum of all the tiny trade decisions people make every day.
If a man sells a fish to a woman for a bag of rice, that is the economy.
When the government makes that trade difficult or expensive, the whole âmachineâ slows down.Â
Ending poverty is mostly about making it easy for those two people to trade without someone else getting in the way.
Africa doesnât lack talented entrepreneurs and innovators.
It lacks systems that allow them to do their magic.
Yes, you can train and invest money in 100,000 entrepreneursâŠ
But if the system blocks them, whatâs the point?
In 2004, the rulers of Dubai did something brilliant that almost nobody talks about.
They created a small legal zone, just 110 acres.
âšInside it, they didnât use UAE law. They used English common law.
That changed everything.
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My mission is 2.5B Africans by 2050âŠ
Africans have tried foreign aid, handouts, and everything else that doesnât work.
Time to focus on what does: A BUSINESS-FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT.
Thatâs what @Prospera_Africa is about. We build cities where starting a business is easy, more jobs are created, and poverty becomes a thing of the past.
THIS is how you solve the immigration crisis.
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Lâexception française câest ce courage lĂ , juste lĂ .
Peu importent les imperfections de la gauche, il nây a pas lieu de tergiverser 1 seule seconde pour choisir entre NFP et RN.
Merci monsieur Pigasse đđŸ
@magattew đđđ
Africa is poor because of colonization
Because « colonization mindset» is a trap. Almost a drugâŠ
Slapping can help. But I think we need the french version of your book for French speaking countries in Africa
Before being slapped đ€ŁđđŸ
Reposting for those in the back, who are so excited about a new world order ran by Chinaâs CCP and Russia.
May God help us all with that new world order.
If we want to become truly sovereign nations, our only salute is economic prosperity.
There is absolutely no shortcut around that.
Everything else is pure distraction and an unforgivable waste of precious time.
"The Heart of a Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to about African Poverty, and What That Means for Human Flourishing" is out today!
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I am thrilled to announce that I will be speaking at the 2023 Africaâs New Cities Summit in Kigali, Rwanda from November 16-18.
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For hundreds of years, there were empires in Africa that were among the wealthiest in the world. We had our own trade routes, no less rich than the Silk Road or the Spice Route. Timbuktu and Aksum were magnificent trade centers.
But then we lost it all.