Trippah wrote on 12/19/17 at 10:24:32:Good article. Thanks for the link.
Glad you liked it......
I don't think he is pushing so much for drug entrepreneurship, as much as using it as a template to show a bigger picture of changing ideas, methodology, and social ideologies, would you agree?
He gives a great reference to the "black market" in Russia, how a once illicit activity should no longer hold sway over current conditions.
Reasoning is sound, but perception lingers.
I would even venture to say with regard to when prohibition was relaxed, it still suffers from some stigma.
But to be fair, that might be more because of what some folks do with the product, like drinking and driving, an accident, and booze is blamed, when in reality it was not the booze, no, but the person acting irresponsible and using the product as not
intended.....
Much like a gun and murder.
Jog, I thought this observation would invite a dialogue from you, re: money (capital).....
Ultimately, there are five sources of capital—natural resources, savings (including what we receive and inherit from parents), markets, government, and crime. If private sources of capital are foreclosed, then government and crime become the only options. And to some extent, blacks turned to crime because it allowed them to acquire capital. For much of American history, blacks were completely dispossessed of whatever they had, not only financial capital but even social and family capital. They were not able to own natural resources, and they did not have any access to financial markets. So perhaps it is not a surprise that, when they could, they turned to government. Seen through this lens, the Civil Rights Movement can be described as an effort by disenfranchised blacks to unlock capital from an entrenched establishment. The United States is unique in the sense that it eventually allowed discriminated groups to emerge and acquire access to capital relatively peacefully. The Civil Rights Movement gave blacks access to financial markets, as well as to the government (though some government programs inadvertently weakened families and communities).
When events are viewed from this angle, the course of development over the last thirty years becomes clear. The big debate in the black community is really over the following: whether and to what extent, at this stage, the black community should continue to rely on the government as a source of capital, or should move to private sources of capital, which are more flexible and provide more opportunities. Unfortunately, time has stood still. If anything, the progression today appears to be toward greater reliance on government. How can this trend be reversed? Would love to hear more thoughts on this informative and provocative essay.....
Pages: 1
