Sending money back home

[VixR]

I agree it's better to create jobs for them than sending them money. As the saying goes, "give a man a fish, feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, feed him for over.

I'm glad you got the gist of what I was saying. There's human capital that isn't being put to use, a whole generation of people who've known nothing but dependency. I don't think that bodes well. If collectivism were truly a useful system, the billions in remittances would be directed towards something bigger.

 

[Xooshdheere]

We are stupid. We could have done like what South Korea did.

Another country that was brought to its knees by war and now is the 11th largest economy, one of the biggest exporters in the world, with high GNI, HDI and GDP is South Korea. You really ought to read the fantastic economic and social transformation South Korea went through the 1960s to 1990s.

Amongst the many tactics they utilised was to dispatch workers to countries like West Germany, Saudi Arabia to work and send their earnings to the government rather than their families.

Another tactic they utilised was requesting the public to send all of their gold possessions into the government to be melted down and sold. Did this generate billions in revenue? Absolutely not, but it was a sign that the Korean people, the Korean volunteers abroad from home had a vision to restore their country and follow in the footpaths of Japan.

I facepalm every time.