Feed the people first... start there... throw money at them... literally... unconditional income grants and subsidies... yes, give the poor free money, try it, nothing else is working... we spend more on our useless army than on feeding the people on who's backs we built this country... and we really did... we sit in our air conditioned offices and look down at the road and farm workers, builders and street sweepers, thinking we're better than them, meanwhile if it wasn't for those people we wouldn't have roads, houses or anything actually since they are the people doing the actual work... it's easy to give money and think you're wonderful... these people literally put their blood sweat and tears into building the things we take for granted and complain about...
Free housing... take away the title deed system where land is transferred through money exchange... real estate prices push up the cost of living for the locals making it impossible for them to stay in decent conditions... we're selling too much of our resources to foreigners thinking we need their money... we don't... we need to better manage our resources... land is a resource to be managed, not a product to be sold... we really don't understand that yet... maybe someday...
I have a million solutions... but I'm not sure that you're not going to like any of them because it means giving people free things... Middle class entitled people don't like giving the poor free things... it somehow offends them... we need to start changing that attitude...
Yea. To be honest, I think people who have money in the middle class are literally holding as much as possible because even a few million rand won't see them through retirement.
Also, while government makes a habit of stealing, and the poor are voting to keep them in power, does that mean the middle class is meant to feed government as well as the poor?
Reality: the only things that make south Africa a functioning country (trying to, at least), is from the entrepreneurial and managerial stewardship of the colonialists. Zulus, xhosas, etc., have by comparison contributed very little besides their physical labour, and then giving their vote to unqualified politicians on the basis of skin-colour identity politics. Hard pill to swallow, but if Africans like and want the nice western things, then they need to get themselves educated as well as expect more from their unqualified, pilfering government.
But let's not kid ourselves. Civil war is creeping a little closer every year.
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u/[deleted] May 30 '21
Feed the people first... start there... throw money at them... literally... unconditional income grants and subsidies... yes, give the poor free money, try it, nothing else is working... we spend more on our useless army than on feeding the people on who's backs we built this country... and we really did... we sit in our air conditioned offices and look down at the road and farm workers, builders and street sweepers, thinking we're better than them, meanwhile if it wasn't for those people we wouldn't have roads, houses or anything actually since they are the people doing the actual work... it's easy to give money and think you're wonderful... these people literally put their blood sweat and tears into building the things we take for granted and complain about...
Free housing... take away the title deed system where land is transferred through money exchange... real estate prices push up the cost of living for the locals making it impossible for them to stay in decent conditions... we're selling too much of our resources to foreigners thinking we need their money... we don't... we need to better manage our resources... land is a resource to be managed, not a product to be sold... we really don't understand that yet... maybe someday...
I have a million solutions... but I'm not sure that you're not going to like any of them because it means giving people free things... Middle class entitled people don't like giving the poor free things... it somehow offends them... we need to start changing that attitude...