Re: Salinger's world
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:47:09 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 8/11/99 9:03:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
seandr@Exchange.Microsoft.com writes:
<< Any effective solution must involve building self-sustaining economies in
the afflicted areas. For example, we might sell our BMWs, start a venture
capital fund, and invest in a new luxury car company based in Somalia (and
owned in part by Somalians). If the company takes off, we can all buy
several Somalian luxury cars with the proceeds from our investment, which
generates even more wealth for us and the Somalians.
-Sean >>
That would be a wonderful start. But in countries like Somalia we need to
get even more basic than that. Food production. Clean water. Something
approaching self-sustenance on the most basic level.
There are American capitalists working in third world countries doing this
kind of thing right now, if that's any comfort.
Jim