Friday, July 22, 2011

To industrialize or not is the question

We have a very good document in the Vision but visions only happen at night.  I mean a good number of them are in the form of dreams. You don’t dream when you are a wake, if you do, that becomes a day dream meaning the chances of it happening are very minimal. We do not want to end up with a pipe dream, do we?
The best way for Kenya to industrialize at this time is to force us there and not wait for the market to do it. There must be deliberate concerted effort by the government to lead the market. I mean we have to go the German way. The story of how Hitler put engineers in one room and demanded to get the world cheapest car is our best bet to make meaningful change in the way we get industrialized.
If we let the market lead us, we will only end up with our resources making things that will benefit a small percentage of the population based on the ability to pay and not on the need to satisfy the real needs of the people.

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