“Nobody wants to work anymore.”
Wrong.
People just do not want to:
- Work 60 hours and still be broke
- Miss their kids growing up
- Get raises smaller than inflation
- Save in a currency printed out of thin air
- Answer emails on weekends
- Get replaced the second margins get tight
- Spend half their paycheck on rent
- Need debt just to survive
- Watch groceries, insurance, and housing go up faster than their income
People do not hate work.
They hate giving everything and getting nowhere.
Burkinabé students now need government permission to study abroad. This means that whether your father is a cabinet minister or a private millionaire, there is no way for their children to escape the state of the country's educational system
Which leaves them no choice but to make sure that the facilities available to students in the country are befitting of their own children.
That is how a country develops an actual elite. Not like Nigeria where as soon as I finished secondary school, my parents put me on a plane to England to enjoy a standard of education that no Nigerian alive today will ever enjoy in Nigeria. The class my parents belong to is called a pseudo-elite.
A proper elite is what is coming together now in the AES. Just wait. If there is no change of Nigeria's trajectory, within 10 years, Nigerians will start going to university in Burkina Faso and making it out to be a status symbol.