Thread by @faizansiddiqi

Desperation is not motivator in isolation.The thinking that you will have your greatest ideas and triumphs if you are desperate, is rich people talk the same as telling lesser beings that getting up at 4am to start your work day is key to being a billionaire any thing less is not

By that measure, if being on the edge of desperation or being poor is such a great motivator why aren't rich people constantly locking away their luxuries & basic necessities in escrow when they work? Have that hanging by a thread and failure take it all away?

The fear of loosing it all or going back to zero is true motivator no doubt. But being on the edge is not good for the body or soul. Understanding it, recognising it and having the ability to work through it are 3 different types of skills.

"It will get better", is the worst type of encouragement you can hand out to some one who is desperate or on the edge, be it due to being anxious about an outcome, struggling financially or some one who cant catch a break. With rising inflation, down turn in employment for youth

Struggling economy, non skilled labour out growing skilled labour and a mis match of education capability to human capital needs is a national level of desperation that no one person can solve, sooner rather than later it will create challenges far beyond what policy can fix.

We are missing clarity of purpose and the ecosystem and opportunities to succeed. I saw with great interest the PMs little WEF address& the retweets on "we have been trying to make it easy for the ICT Sector to do biz" "we have talked to fbr" Dear PM share the bloody action steps

If desperation were a competitive sport, successive governments have already made us global champions at it. Just hope that things ease and the pressure is released, if not then all this our "textiles" are doing so well we have no labour in Faisalabad will all come to bite us.

Countries aren't and shouldn't be run on uncle anecdotes on WhatsApps. Do we even have a labour force survey that tells us the last 8 months of employment data by industry segment for Faisalabad? Or just cuz Razzak uncles friends are doing well we release this news?

The winter of discontent is already approaching, Lower than usual temperatures, dwindling power supply viz a vi lack of natural gas and RLNG, its the perfect storm for desperation. This is the kind of desperation that results NOT in economic prosperity because you are desperate

to compete with your nearest competitor to outperform them for efficiency or scale. This is desperation for survival and basic needs. Whilst lobbyists, information shapers, self absorbed financially secure foreign wealth holding spammers will tell you that things are looking up.

They have no skin in the game. When this class of individuals have their kids go to Pakistani universities when their agriculture land is taxed, their income and wealth + tax statements published, their businesses regulated and their "grants","concessions", "permits" pulled then

only can we talk about change of any kind. Till then every one is being pushed in to the circle of desperation around them and the actions of a few, the 1% at the top of bureaucracy, politics, business, Islamabad++ are resulting in an imbalance of have and have nots.

Whilst some may be naive enough to buy the narrative that tech alone will fix this balance of power once we build our unicorns & money starts to flow.But unicorns arent going to create unskilled labour shortages like Faisalabad.This country will be at peak output with 2 unicorns

Maybe 3, but we neither have the depth of resources today, available talent pool or more so than any thing else, qualified players in the HR space to build and grow for that transition. We need technology powered unicorns that solve for and create employment, in the

under skilled, un skilled & vocationally trained markets. Unicorns that use tech as a tool for enabling others to make money and providing access to work will help them selves and the economy and people at large.The current government plans, policies & directionality not as much

Also just by lending and nano lending to the already marginalised hasn't worked any where and for any one besides the lenders. We don't want a society further stuck in debt, we need to unlock value levers so people get out of desperation, giving them credit without understanding

the down side risk of non payment, is a digital chain of indebtedness that will hurt us more than it helps us. Cries for help are frequently inaudible.Listen harder & help. @rebootdude @raza_matin @babushka99 @jehan_ara @SaadGH @ShahidM99 @MubarizSiddiqui @TalhaIzhar @FaizaYousuf