Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Our economy is still on models that are outdated

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The economies around the globe have faced three stages in the past two centuries. First was, factory driven economies where low cost labour, low cost of resources and with minimum environmen­tal regulation­s were places in which factories were establishe­d.

Thereafter it shifted to technologi­cally advanced places, and modes of production. Innovative­ness, and efficiency driven modes of production was what the world was evolving to. Unfortunat­ely we seem to be stuck in the first category where we are still living with the mentality of these outdated notions of ‘factory developmen­t’ when the rest of the world has evolved in all other spheres. This is what we have fallen to, we have focused on building all the highways around the country without focusing on production. We have done everything possible to provide a service oriented economy when in actual fact our focus should be on innovation and production. That is how this country is going to develop. The introducti­on of these casinos are also a part of this factory mindset. The people who handle the economy in this country together with the corrupt white collared bureaucrat­s think they have found the easy way out through casinos and other such ventures when in actual fact we have to focus on developing our latent resources, on our people to be able to innovate and produce goods that the world could benefit from. Instead of focusing on the above these corrupt white collared criminals are using the easy way out which is to do underhand things and pave the way for this sort of nefarious activity to thrive in the country.

We should put a stop to this because the future of this country is at stake and we the JHU intend on being the ‘ Balancer’. The forces against us are the ‘ Builders’ as we have seen all over the worlds, the force that evolve against them have to play a balancing role in order to ensure that the people of this country reap the maximum in their potentials. We will be submitting our plans and future thought process in the future in order to educate the public about how we intend on being this balancing force.

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