The Market For African Babies...
It is a win-win situation, celebrities and rich western folks adopt a baby from Africa, give them a weird a name, they can then call themselves proud parents, thus stable resume, envy of their neighbours, tax breaks, good ole sense of fulfilment also known as giving back to the planet that has giving you so much. For the kids, an opportunity of living well above average in a Western country. Not bad I'd say.
My grouse with this is the deceitful, 'save the world' pretext in which this cases are being filed. As a right leaning, pro-capitalist, sympathetic to the gotta-get-mine philosophy. I believe we all should be more upfront with the new wave of outsourcing child birth to poor African women. If a product satisfies greed shouldn't the fair market value be paid for such a product.
I have never been a fan of charities. Charity is a feel-good tonic for the rich, meant to counteract the rape which they have caused the poor. More importantly the prevalence of charitable organisations is a sign of the failure of Capitalism. Note: Capitalism is by itself is not a failure but the current implementation of selective capitalism is the failure. Free Trade somebody.
My grouse with this is the deceitful, 'save the world' pretext in which this cases are being filed. As a right leaning, pro-capitalist, sympathetic to the gotta-get-mine philosophy. I believe we all should be more upfront with the new wave of outsourcing child birth to poor African women. If a product satisfies greed shouldn't the fair market value be paid for such a product.
I have never been a fan of charities. Charity is a feel-good tonic for the rich, meant to counteract the rape which they have caused the poor. More importantly the prevalence of charitable organisations is a sign of the failure of Capitalism. Note: Capitalism is by itself is not a failure but the current implementation of selective capitalism is the failure. Free Trade somebody.
looks to me like a great idea, African technorati LOL. Now the content generated by Africans will no longer be lost in the vast ocean of the www. I am not a fan of that candy green color though, too trendy. The badge is a bit too chunky, for a claustrophobic individual like moi. I wish one could choose the size and background for the badge. After all said and done its still a great idea and I am rooting for the Afrigator team. The country channel is the best idea I have seen in a long time. Gracefully acknowledging our differences and still managing to bind us together as Africans.
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I do not agree with you, but you do have a great point of view. Reading through your posts.
Hmmm. This is a senitive topic.
Obviously I do not know Angelina Jolie and Madonna personally, but it might be possible that they (esp Jolie) honestly want to adopt from Africa in spite of tax breaks and the popularity that comes wit it. I'm really not a fan of Jolie cause I still consider her a home wrecker...even though it was Brad's fault really... but I digress...
I want to adopt kids when I get married. As of now, I do not care about the race and nationality of the child/children. I just want him/her/them.
Needless 2 say, there r other people who adopt kids from Africa but do not get the fame because they r not celebrities. I was watching a Caucasian family on Oprah and they had like 10 African kids, I think. I only knew of her because Oprah brought her and her husband to her show. Such people obviously have kind hearts.
And I like Charities o. What's wrong with Charities is that some people do it for the wrong reasons, but a clean charity is a wonderful thing.
Offtopic,
Thanx for checking up on me. I'm fine. No longer MIA, but i think my blogging schedule is probably going to change....let's see. Take care!
What is this? Omodud getting picky about colour schemes?!!
It's the content that counts and like you say, now we have our African Technorati (and the less we compare it to that useless bit of outmoded coding the better), which means your amd my content does not enter the sphere and evaporate.
Welll done to Justin and Mike!
Omodudu you will come to lurve the 'gator colour scheme!!
Oops posted to wrong artile. Please delete both.
Sorry
true true