The youth in Somalia are receiving major investments , support and training in entrepreneurship, vocational/technical and TVET programmings being rolled out nationwide. So there are are improvements.
I have spoken about this at length many times before but since yall hold some weird resentment towards the wider Somali collective and use this forum as a means to vent, it is ignored and treat it as if nothing is happening:
They even have reality shows roled out for them them and various innovation incubators to empower youth with entreneurship skills so they can become job creators.
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The Tahrib thing which i continuously have to contextualize had to with the educational system being misaligned with market demand, not because Somalia lacks opportunities or is even hopeless place(i know yall want it be like that) but because they are not trained or educated to take advantage of it in the right way. Which is changing now since they are being equipped with skills that can be directly applied to the market.
Also a lot of countries around the world have their political systems dominated by old people . Take Japan and United states for example. Its the reason they called the silver democracy or gerontocracy.
Joe Biden and members of Congress are increasingly long in the tooth â and more and more out of step with a much younger US public
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Are you going to frame them as hopeless places, are youth tahribing from there? No. It has to do with the fact that older people have more wealth, experience and longevity in the system. Also Political systems mostly favor incumbents which makes it harder for newcomers especially young people enter in, so it takes years to build that familiarity, various other reasons as well.
Now i think this will change for Somalia as more youth become more experienced, educated, skilled and organized which opens up their ability to enter the political space more in the future.
We are starting to see this happen more now with youth even starting to lead political parties, before it was mostly older people with the experience, educational and networking background.
Three companies do not monopolize or even control everything that is untrue. I know which companies you are talking about that are in the Money transfer and Telecom like Hormuud or Dahabshil. Why is it not true? because the Fintech/Telecom sector has many other major companies across the country , they even exist in the same spaces and its highly competitive, that's why Somalia has the cheapest calling rates in the region and the competition drives people to deliver better services and innovate so they don't lose out to their competition. Monopoly is anti competition which is completely the opposite of how Somalia's private sector functions.
This actually gained exposure during Starlink's entry into Somalia which made headlines:
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It's soo competitive that the Telecom companies have developed intense rivalries, almost akin to the rivalry between Apple and Microsoft, but instead of 2 companies its multiple ones.
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Now some companies might have a larger market share but that doesn't come from even monopolistic practices.
It's really comes through delivery of cheaper prices, better services to increase turner over. You can see this with Somalis businesses across East Africa.
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It's the same in every sector, like i mentioned a yesterday in my response to
@Maintainnnin about the seed sector why it's particularly strong is because it has like 12 different companies competing.
Now the biggest one out of the bunch is obviously Filsan , but it's clearly not monopoly at all. There is very little preventing anyone from entering into any market except that you have to compete and build from the ground up to match them. If there can be 10 leading companies in Telecom, 13 in the commercial banking sector etc they have branches across Somali cities and regions. It shows you that its highly competitive private sector.
People aren't worked likes slaves with no rights in major private companies in Somalia, most employees actually receive bonuses and compensation fees if the salaries are insuffecient, thats why companies like Hormuud for example have high employee retention.
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Same thing even in studies on construction sector(although i cant find the study now) but the electric power companies as well, they show are treated with respect by their supervisors who listen to them and they have opportunity for advancements. They are not treated like people with no rights at all
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Somalis actually treat their employees with dignity and respect , even in that other thread i showed a study that showed Somalis don't have slave -master relationship with their foreign maids unlike the Arabs and they are treated
You can also see with Ajanabis who work for Somali bosses across East Africa and even America that i have shared on this forum they always remark how much they love it. Somalis or Somalia are not as bad as yall try to imagine them to be all the time.
Do we have certain issues that need to be overcomed like any other society, yes. But Somalis don't hide them, they acknowledge them openly and actively work to address them every day.