Created 05-09-26
Last edited 14-08-20

Business morals, customs and attitudes

No Capital formation, money is used. then you wait for new customers: Repair man has no parts whatsoever (bikes, different with mobile phones). Taxi driver has no fuel.

skin tax,

women power since the downfall of cooperatives selling is work, so the men leave it to the women, who pocket the money > power.

 "tenders": subcontracting selling jobs and just pocketing a margin. At the end of the chain there is a smart guy who sells to a fool who does not understand he can't do the job for the remaining money

who is going to kick the asskickers ass

market value versus personal value: "MIJN" slippers, paraplu, elke koffieboon oprapen, de persoonlijke waarde van een hand zout is een hele tros matoke, de marktwaarde van matoke is twaalf handen zout (Barnabas)

No anticipation: no build up of stocks (temporary price rises at feast days (Eastern, Christmas)), and no anticipating savings (instead: stealing, police has no time to fight theft and robbery because they need money too and have intensified their harassment of innocent citizens)

all serious shops and trades by Indians. Not on the market, but market people buy from Indian wholesale

Butchers Islamic.

Family barter: city dwellers visit their country relatives after harvest

Promises: the dhow example

the Mugalabe case

Skin tax is mainly applied by ethnic Ugandans to Whites. It is strongest is tourist shops. In other shops skin tax is lowest with Ugandan muslems and with women.

planning, truth
The Big Three success stories of western culture: Education, Clothes, Pictures
The Big Four failures : Truth, Guilt, Christianity and Planning).

Money

Burgmans on money.
M is a social invention like the entry ticket, the certificate, license, passport. Money economies are artifacts. You can not expect them to run according to its intended purpose all the time, especially not in Africa: it disappears to Swiss banks..