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African. Woman. Wife. Teacher. In the 99%. Love + Revolution. Elimu ya ngumbaru on the Kenyan socio-political context for the price of bundles - Betty Guchu

Aug 22, 2020, 5 tweets

The reason why I talk about work at #maishakazini is because we have to learn how to read money. 700 million from a prisons is not just cash. It's forced labor of ordinary people whose products were sold for cash by people.other than themselves. They don't decide the price.

So the work of those prisoners could be 5 times or more than that 700m. And remember that these are people jailed for 7 years for stealing chicken while those who still trillions don't work. When the workers leave, the 7 years won't be counted as "work experience." #maishakazini

And there is another major contradiction in this economic thinking.

It's not innovative. At all. It's sticking to the plantation formula of making many versions of products we don't need, so that they can be sold cheap. Capitalists are stupid. #maishakazini

These prison plantations are reducing Kenyans to their bare hands, instead of GoK building schools and supporting innovation where people can expand their minds and translate new ideas with their hands
#maishakazini

Kenya is being dumbed down.

Add CBC to that story, where ideas are.crushed, then you see that Kenya is being dumbed down.

That's why I said a few years ago that our greatest fight under Tekayo will be to protect our minds. By 2022, we will all be blabbering fools like Sonko.
#maishakazini

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