That’s not making sense - he should have ended up adoring Capitalism rather than Socialism. I have seen Kibera, and have friends who live in Karen. The disparities are shocking - Kibera doesn’t even have a proper sewage system (e.g. Flying Toilets ....it’s worse than you think). On the other hand, the new homes in Karen are beyond fantastic. Veritable mansions that cost an arm and a leg - an empty half acre in Karen can go for around KES 20 mil (curr FX rate 250,000 US), while fully built houses easily go for for over 80m million KES (over a million US). They tend to be all sold out, paid fully, and even before the construction is done. A very close friend of mine has a house there that had a mini theater, greenhouse, solarium, a music room with grand piano, and objects d’art all over. A truly beautiful home. Over at Kibera life is hard ....women get raped all the time for instance. I would have thought experiencing both worlds would have made that politician identify even closer with the benefits of Capitalism and good government mechanisms, rather than socialism and indept government mechanisms????? Otherwise what you have is a country like Kenya, where the well to do live amazing lives (my current standard of living is unlike anything I even had when I was in the US) and the poor lead truly horrific lives. That politician makes no sense whatsoever! He evidently did not learn the lesson.
Indept = inept
Thank you for this interesting perspective!
I think he learned it quite well - By having the government control everything, you and your elite friends can live the good life. If there are hoards of peons living in squalor, so what? You can live far enough from them so that you'll never even notice them. It's not as if their lives count for anything.