The mute🔕, block🚫 and report🚩 features are there for a reason. If you do not like what you see on your timeline, you know what to do. No need to engage if you don't have to. Engaging the tweet, is a form of publicity whether you like it or not.
To be wrong and loud is the way of the world now.
Knowledge is not valued. Wisdom is scoffed at. Discourse is in the gutters.
What’s applauded is the tomfoolery and ‘fanfoolery.’
#DevaluingCitizenship
News that the Government of Ghana has accepted proposals to amend the 1992 constitution to make persons with multiple or dual nationality eligible to hold all public offices except the President and Vice President is most interesting.
If there is no value in having persons whose nationality has not been compromised holding public office, then why exempt the presidency?
Is this a brazen devaluation of citizenship? Whose interest is the move intended to serve?
Ghana na waooo!
What is happening with Ken Ofori-Atta should serve as a good example of why we should not allow people with dual citizenship to hold political office.
If you want to serve the country, renounce your other citizenship.
Now their children don't have to give up their US or UK citizenship just to hold Top government positions here.
Sweet pie in one hand, yoghurt in the other.
Why lose one when you can have both? Loot with your local passport, and protect your wealth safely with the foreign one
I watched this yesterday and spent some time reading more about induced demand. I thought he did an incredible job explaining the concept.
What surprises me is that everyone seems fixated on the idea that road expansion means people will immediately buy more private cars. That is only one possible mechanism, and in a country like Ghana it may not even be the biggest one.
The broader idea is that road usage increases. People make more trips, development expands, more people move to places like Kasoa because commuting becomes easier, and public transport operators (trotros and buses) put more vehicles on the road to meet the increased demand.
The carpooling example wasn’t the strongest, but the overall phenomenon has been observed in cities like Jakarta, Lagos, Bangalore, and Mexico City. Expanding roads by itself often does not solve congestion in the long run.
That doesn’t mean roads should never be expanded. It means road expansion alone is rarely enough. The better long-term solution is to pair it with reliable public transport. It doesn’t have to be rail. A fast, dependable, affordable bus system that connects people to where they actually want to go can move far more people with fewer vehicles on the road.
I thought it was a great video because it encouraged us to think beyond the obvious solution. Sometimes the intuitive answer isn’t the one that works best over the long term.