Sam Salihu

THE WEALTH OF NATIONS THE POVERTY OF SOME After several years of living life After studying in small and large universities After working in several companies, large and small After traveling the world over After starting and operating companies, some failing, others succeeding After interacting closely with several people from several countries After tasting delicious foods of the rich and not so rich After doing business across many countries in Africa and a few countries in the world I HAVE OBSERVED AND COME TO A CONCLUSION AT THIS POINT IN MY LIFE WHICH I WANT TO SHARE, ESPECIALLY TO MY BELOVED AFRICANS, AND HOPE IT WOULD BE CONSIDERED … I Hope! In the economically and socially successful and well-organized parts of the world, “JOBS” are their “gods” By this I mean, most people have jobs to go to or to engage them as the medium thru which they live their lives, earn income to support themselves and their families but most importantly their job or workplace may be connected to their dreams, interest, training or passion and serves as the vehicle that gives meaning, excitement or adventure to their lives… Creativity, innovations, inventions etc emerge from jobs and workplaces And because of this people respect and cherish their jobs, and hence: JOBS are their gods for money, purpose, adventure, essence! They have made JOBS the nuts and bolts of the economy that function to create the wealth (not paper money but money as the means of exchange for the goods and services in housing, education, health, transportation, entertainment etc, ie in all areas needed and necessary for civilized living) And this availability of wealth pushes the progress for individuals, their communities and their country And by the strict adherence to this simple, time-tested and universal principle in all the civilized and advanced countries of the world, any new nation, former colony or not,who embraces, adheres and practices this simple but powerful human ideology, whether capitalist, socialist or communist… or another form, shall also thrive! And the citizens of these nations, through and due to the practice of this ideology of “JOBS AS gODS” shall become the bedrock upon which, and from which, the continuous generation of the science, technology and new improved knowledge for doing things in all areas of the human imagination and endeavor shall emanate and they will drive the affairs and living architecture of the human race The nations who lie outside this sphere shall serve as “slaves to the others” and even their God-given natural resources shall be “pillaged” for pittance and used to advance the interests of the civilized and rich nations of the world AND THIS, FRANKLY, SEEMS TO BE THE LAW OF NATURE AS PASSED DOWN BY THE CREATOR WHO HIMSELF ENJOYS AND APPLAUDS WORK AND ABHORS LAZINESS And therefore, the enormous endowment of Africa in people and resources will continue to be pillaged in diverse ways through ingenious and not-so-ingenious ways by others UNTIL AFRICA ALSO EMBRACES, ADHERES TO AND PRACTICES THE UNIVERSAL FREE-FOR-ALL IDEOLOGY OF JOBS as gods … So Africans must do everything in their power towards this and you too shall rise up and be counted among the great and civilized nations of the world 👇🏿