When Will A Third World Nation Show A Success Like Vegas?
When the whole modern-day dynamics of Las Vegas began there was almost nothing there to begin with: it was a forgotten town filled with dust and almost nothing else. Now Las Vegas is one of the most important tourist destinations in the United States and arguably, in the whole world. In just half a century, the shabby town emerged from the dust and became a major city living in glory.
Meanwhile, all sorts of banana-republic leaders all across the third world promised to scores of discouraged citizens all sorts of magic recipes for progress, more bizarre than pretending to win the lottery three times in a row, and while the gullible bought those arguments and put them to practice, they sunk themselves deeper into the mud.
So, Las Vegas is probably the best proof that plainly stupid ideologies don't work, that absurd national projects are just that, absurd ideas, and that tinkering with nationalistic political ideas, the nationalisation of natural resources or banking, extracting heavy taxes from apparently sinful companies and so on is just B.S. and nothing else.
The thing that takes anyone out of poverty is smart work, like what has been done in Las Vegas these last decades, attracting investors and foreigners with their money, and what better way to attract them than by giving them the promise and the chance of gambling? Las Vegas, and not some rabid guy in a green uniform is the thing to imitate if you really want to get out of true misery.
