Two decades after President Robert Mugabe wrecked Zimbabwe’s economy by urging blacks to violently force white farmers off their land, Zimbabwe has thrown in the towel.
Back in 2000 they decided that it would be good to steal farm land from whites in order to “redress colonial imbalances”. Almost 4,500 white-owned properties were ripped from their owners and the once vibrant agricultural industry that exported tobacco and roses and grew most of the food the nation could possibly need immediately collapsed. Food shortages ensued, inflation became the world’s highest and the manufacturing industry was decimated.
What was one of Africa’s richest countries became one of its poorest. Now the government is trying to get the farmers back. Good luck with that, once bitten…
Fast forward to 2018 and those ‘quick learners’ in South Africa think it would be a grand idea to rip the land away from it’s white farmers (without compensation) .
Those pesky white people, who make up just 9% of the population, owned 72% of the private land. Given that the “redistribution of land” was a fundamental principle in the struggle against apartheid, its only logical to take whatever whitey has. After all, whats the worst that can happen?
So now, 90 percent of the land that was stolen from the whites is ‘not productive’. ‘Not productive’ in government speak means not involved in the production of goods.
And now we come to 2020 and the Bernie Bro’s. These mental heavyweights believe that the time for socialism is upon us. Everything is gonna be free; education, housing, income, food, medicine, healthcare, etc.
I’ll guarantee you that once these children grab hold of the methods of distribution and then shortly realize that there are never enough resources available to satisfy the demands of the masses equally , they will be clamoring to take control of the means of production. Ask Zimbabwe and South Africa how that works out.
Once the production side of the carefully balance invisible hand (of Mr. Smith fame) falls to the the masses, it’s all over.