Afronomics

All but 1 one of my coworkers were laid off yesterday. One thing that really stinks about telemarketing is how unexpectedly it can turn over. Next month we might have a completely new team, but for now I'm stuck dilly dallying on the internet.

I have to make a note about one topic I read about today at wikipedia.org, and that is african economics. I've been turned off from the subject because it gets so much attention by music celebrities trying to make it the cool thing to do. I don't know what changed in me today, but I finally had some curious interest in it. So here's what I learned. Africa has a long history of detrimental acts which crippled individual countries until it spread throughout the whole continent. It's the only place in the world that gets poorer every year. That's kind of depressing if you think about it. It would have to get rid of despotism (what we call tryannical governments), wide spread disease, famine, violence, and debt to better its chances. It would also need huge developments to improve transporting goods from one end to the other. It's future is glorious if the right things happen.