Monday, Mar 16, 2009
A glimpse of the future for the UK?
Guardian [video]: Zimbabwe - gold for bread
"The zimbabwe dollar is now worthless. Here in my village, people are trading in gold panned from the river. If you need soap, you need gold. If you need bread, you need gold. Gold traders are demanding 4 times the market rate from people too hungry and desperate to turn them down. I don't remember the last time I used Zimbabwe dollars - the shops here just don't accept them anymore. People who are too sick or old to dig for gold are dying of hunger. I have never seen my people in such a desperate situation. Zimbabwe once had the best educated children in Africa. Now they must spend their days panning just survive.
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1. quiet guy said...
There is no hell hot enough for Mugabe and his followers.
2. crash n burn said...
It's better than the UK, we can't pan for gold here!
3. flashman said...
You have to wonder how much harm we've done by imposing an economic blockade on them for twenty years. I used to spend my summers in Malawi in the early 80's. There was a large community of ex-Rhodesian whites living in Blantyre. I've never met a more boorish, racist, misogynist bunch. I would snatch a few farms if I’d lived under the cosh of this bunch of 'when we's' (a nickname for ex Rhodesians)
4. Maihem said...
"People who are too sick or old to dig for gold are dying of hunger." as opposed to "People who are too sick or old to print money are dying of hunger"?
The infirm die in the absense of a welfare state - nothing to do with trading with gold rather than paper money. It is the inability to work that does it.
What is interesting is that digging for gold makes you wealthier there than working in return for a salary of gold. I wonder what makes other types of labour so undesirable now such that it has changed.
5. enuii said...
crash'n'burn, yes you can, just get yourself down to wales in the triangle between pwthelli, aberystwyth and newtown or go up to the west coast of scotland and with a little bit of intelligence a small shovel, a pan and some patience you will find some small flecks of the yellow stuff.