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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (11445)11/24/2001 6:45:21 PM
From: dvdw©  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Afganistan is the ultimate example of decentralized self interest in politics. The Familial extensions to the tribal, tell the whole story about how alliances are made and sustained. It's a bottom up society, where gangs linked by ethnicity carve out for themselves spaces within the geography of Afganistan.

I think that Post war Afgansistan lends itself to reconstruction by incorporation and I mean that litteraly. John Deere could create provincial shareholders in it's Afgan Subsidiary, using Tractors, Cattapiller by donating bulldozers, in a very decentralized way, individual tribes or affilliations would become conjoined by Capital equipment linkage. US Corporations could be Incented to amortize capital equipment by incorporating groups of people throughout the provinces, ie you've created small corporations whose contribution by their memebers is the labor.

These affiliations would have the ability to gain +50% control of the enterprise over time. This kind of capitalism is far better than Loans from the world bank where money is subdivided into political spheres, so little of it becomes seed capital for the masses.

Creative incentives directed to American Companies could change the face of Afganistan overnight, if contributions to the cause are distributed as the gross Equity of the venture, and the value added is the resultant labor of the enterprise, we could lift these people up quickly. Other perscriptions are tired and self serving to an elite few, who seem to always be there with their hands out and always taking their cut.
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