Africa-Press – Lesotho. So you want to be rich? A few years back this would have been viewed as a stupid question. You could want to be a doctor, engineer, teacher, scientist, professor, agriculturist, politician, film star, singer, musician, or a businessman, but getting rich was never a vocation.
Not so today – and it is not as difficult as you might imagine. The world has changed and the laws governing business are no longer written by your elected representatives, they are written by the super-rich themselves.
It is big money which boosts the nation’s GDP and gives our leaders a place at the high tables of international relations, while also creating a semblance of development for domestic consumption.
The path to getting rich has therefore already been laid out over the last two to three decades for aspirational people like you. ‘Ease of doing business’, ‘too big to fail’, ‘trickle-down theory’, ‘liberalisation’, ‘globalised economy’, ‘private public partnership’, ‘disinvestment’, right-sizing’, etc.
, are all concepts created for you, which we have been made to believe are the bedrock of economic progress.
Of course, the wealth you accumulate might not be rightfully yours, but then who cares. All you need to do is to stay focussed on exploiting the system to your advantage.
The first thing you need to understand is that education has no relevance in the world of the super-rich. I would not like to name people here but do take a couple of minutes to Google for the top five to ten richest men and women in the world.
The results are unambiguous – practically all of the richest people are school or college dropouts. Higher education is for employees you will be hiring to work for you.
In any case, once you are rich you can set up endowments at Colleges and Universities and buy all the qualifications you want. The second thing to remember is that you must either know or work hard to cultivate friendship with a few powerful politicians.
The higher they are placed the better. These friendships will be purely transactional, the ‘take some give some’ type. You need them to get off the block – to secure seed capital for your dream.
With the right political backing, technical feasibility, economic viability, and due diligence can all be managed. No need to be anxious here. The few people who get caught up in scams, etc.
, are those who either did not have political backing or had run afoul of the powers that be. Choose your friends carefully and, if possible, in more than one camp. You also need to relocate some brothers, sisters, cousins, etc.
, in a few countries where they can set up shell companies to siphon out the wealth you will be making in your country. This is where you need to cultivate some tax officials also. After all you don’t want regulatory authorities making things difficult for you.
The third thing is to forget everything you might have been taught about ethics, morality, honesty, and other similar high-sounding words, which will no longer belong to your new world. Let naive people debate about the importance of such values for a fair society, you are here to corner wealth.
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