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Comparative advantage says trade helps everyone. It doesn't say it helps everyone equally. Four things decide how much a country actually gains.
Read our latest article “The Components of Advantage” from our column, The Convergence.
thezeitgeistnow.com/articles…
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Your uncle is retarded. He landed at the airport in the city, and instead of going to the nearest industrial pig farm and working out an business contract, he drove 200km into the wilderness to try to rope villagers into animal husbandry.
Is that how your country industrialized?
My uncle did a mission trip to Africa to teach a village how to raise pigs for food.
They flew in with a bunch of pigs, built pens for them, Food and water troughs, and taught them how to breed them so they could always have meat. Two weeks of work and teaching.
They went back a year later to check on the village. They had thrown a giant party the night after my uncle left, slaughtered and ate all the pigs, sold the feeders and fencing, and were really pissed off that the mission didn't bring them more pigs.
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Screenshots from my piece, “The Primacy of Ideas”, for @thezeitgeistnow’s Praxians.
Read the full piece here: thezeitgeistnow.com/articles…
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Europeans get taxed because the taxes fund welfare states and extremely strong public services.
Can you say the Nigerian state esp in this current iteration has been able to make proper use of what it currently has?
Higher taxes in Nigeria is like giving money to a drug addict.
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And by the way there’s no Nigerian that’s demanding rich country standards.
24/7 electricity, at least in urban areas is something that has since been solved in comparable countries.
Decent road infrastructure, basic healthcare. Life expectancy.
These are things that are achievable in our current iteration. For our size and potential, we are way behind our peers. It is not acceptable
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Why some comparative advantages put a ceiling on what a country can earn.
From Unfair Comparative Advantage, on Zeitgeist Now.
Read the full article: thezeitgeistnow.com/articles…
Screenshots from my piece, “The Primacy of Ideas”, for @thezeitgeistnow’s Praxians.
Read the full piece here: thezeitgeistnow.com/articles…
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My first article for Praxians, our philosophy column at Zeitgeist Now @thezeitgeistnow.
“If we Africans care about progress at a foundational level, we cannot hope to leapfrog into prosperity without first building and sustaining the intellectual cradles of our societies, testing and improving the ideas they spread, and aiming those ideas squarely at the advancement of our people.
In developing nations, investing heavily in ideas and the knowledge economy cannot be an aristocratic luxury because ideas are quite literally the golden tickets out of poverty.”
Read more 🫶⬇️
My first article for Praxians, our philosophy column at Zeitgeist Now @thezeitgeistnow.
“If we Africans care about progress at a foundational level, we cannot hope to leapfrog into prosperity without first building and sustaining the intellectual cradles of our societies, testing and improving the ideas they spread, and aiming those ideas squarely at the advancement of our people.
In developing nations, investing heavily in ideas and the knowledge economy cannot be an aristocratic luxury because ideas are quite literally the golden tickets out of poverty.”
Read more 🫶⬇️
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Iyefu Okwoli introduces her column, Praxians, with the article "The Primacy of Ideas".
In it she outlines the philosophy that animates our work, which is the recognition of the primacy of ideas.
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The “fight against anti-intellectualism” on this app is just a bunch of word salad chefs trying to enforce authoritarianism while forgetting the very principles of intellectualism: nuance, critical analysis, context, and individualism.
A clear case of “you no go school reach me”
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New piece on my substack about the spatial and socioeconomic ramifications of Banana island and a marginal allusion to Henri Lefebvre.
indefinitejest.substack.com/…
