Message from @Nepene
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Looks like the big problem was France
They looted a lot of their money
Still, they're doing better now
France, why do you do these things?
Almost everyone is doing better now. But the crises of the transitions must belong to the new system.
Armed revolutions are the worst way to do it course.
Ah Google explains all
They're a dictatorship which is looting their people with the help of France
That does tend to make capitalism more difficult
Yes and that's also capitalist.
Capitalism plus democracy is best
There is a lot of problems african countries need to solve.
This digressed magnificently.
capitalism worked as much as they tried it.
India got burned economically when they tried socialism
Sure. No point going in circles. My only intent was to represent things closer to how they were than to the idealised vision of how it must have been.
People went to work. People worked. Stuff was produced and consumed.
Google says this
Cameroon’s economic freedom score fell by 2.4 places to 51.8, ranking it 150th on the 2017 Index, placing it in the ‘mostly unfree’ band. This performance reflects a decline in labour freedom, business freedom, an increased bureaucratic inertia and trade freedom. Despite an improvement in property rights, there have been restrictions transferring money into/out of the country. Cameroon is ranked 34th out of 46 countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa region, and its overall score is lower than the regional average.
So, the government seems to be more nationalistic than capitalists
And Google suggests that many are suggesting more free trade and such would boost their economy
Okay if you restrict capitalism to only mean functional countries then only functional countries will be capitalist. That's a tautology.
No, I am not restricting it like that
I mean, part of their problem is that they have rules and regulations preventing capitalism
They're doing better than socialist nations
But they don't have a strong commitment to capitalism which is reducing their income
It notes say it's hard to move money into the nation
So foreigners can't invest easily in the country
Or trade with it
also heavy functional regulations against starting businesses
Okay so? Guys come on. This conversation started as a very narrow comment about an exaggeration that detracted from taking the overall point seriously.
You told me to own Cameroon
So I did
You're not owning it though.
I noted it doing better than socialist nations but also noted they have laws against capitalism
Ok fine.
I am respecting their skill and spirit
They did well, better than most nations
Their failures were heavily because they were also super nationalist, above capitalism