Posted on 03/08/2010 9:22:10 PM PST by John Semmens
The South African Government’s program of seizing farms from white owners and giving them to black owners isn’t going well. Nearly 90% of the redistributed farm lands are unproductive.
Land reform minister Gugile Nkwinti expressed his frustration with the beneficiaries of the land transfer. “They are complaining that the farms we gave them aren’t profitable,” Nkwinti said. “Well, they were profitable under the previous owners.”
Nkwinti speculated that “the fact that these people were given farms rather than having to earn them may have confused them as to how profits are made. There’s a lot of work needed to make the land produce a viable crop. Perhaps this fact was obscured in our efforts to redistribute the ownership of these formerly productive assets.”
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Suprise.
I am, as usual, aghast.
...heh heh heh.
The new black owners keep sitting around waiting for the magical money tree orchards to bloom.
"Social justice" assumes that everyone in a society has the exact same ability to produce and any differences in results (wealth) are because the system was rigged against them.
Hence, government's job is to right this wrong by redistributing the means of creating wealth from those who are successful to those who are unsuccessful.
Of course, only someone with a severe mental problem would assume that they will receive the exact same amount of production when the inefficient nonproductive members of a society control said assets.
Governments create poverty. They cannot create wealth, nor can they create jobs other than those within the government and inefficient make work projects (public school system) that continue to drain the wealth out of the society.
Will humans ever learn? Maybe not with Marxists controling all cultural and educational institutions of the world. The massive oppression, poverty and need Marxism creates is a promise. Next, the government will have to enslave these new farm owners to force them to produce the food the country needs.
I doubt that even the enslavement of the new farm owners will produce the desired results. The people who lived on the land before the white Europeans moved into South Africa never once considered farming the land and creating wealth. I think, as the article supports, that they will revert to living off of the land, just as their predecessors did.
I am convinced that great civilizations destroy themselves via government. The greater the number of people in a society who work for the government in relationship to those who actually create goods and services, the higher the probability the society will collapse.
The disappearance of the great Mayan society puzzles scholars. I contend that people simply could not support the government projects (intracity wars, building great pyramids) any longer, and simply moved away from the great cities for self preservation reasons.
The US in headed for a similar conclusion. We simply cannot support the massive government pension obligations and will simply move away from the taxing agencies and start living off of the land - see Detroit.
No doubt. There is no such thing as limited government. It won't can can't last.
I have become one of those people I used to think was a whacko. Thank you Von Mises. It's liberating, once it clicks.
I have been a student of the Austrian School of Economics for a number of years; and also a fan of Von Mises.
I didn't realize that it showed. And, yes, it's liberating while being so really simple.
Any time I hear a complicated economic explanation, I know it's a Keynesian / Marxist attempting to obfuscate the issues for their political and material gain.
“The disappearance of the great Mayan society puzzles scholars. I contend that people simply could not support the government projects (intracity wars, building great pyramids) any longer, and simply moved away from the great cities for self preservation reasons.”
I bleieve you are correct about that...plus the human sacrifices to their hungry gods was not a pleasant experience either.
Absolutely.
It does not make any sense at all to sacrifice young females and throw their remains into a cenote (a sinkhole with exposed rocky edges containing groundwater). First off, it limits the gene pool for population expansion, and secondly, it eventually pollutes the water supply. At least that was what I understood from my visit to Chichen Itza.
Many people don't know this fact, but in the United States, women did not out number men until after WW II because so many died during child birth. It wasn't until the means to produce penicillin in sufficient quantities, and large numbers of doctors trained by battlefield experience, that our medical system was able to curb deaths by infections, due to child birth.
But, I'm beginning to ramble. Thanks for the interaction.
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