1 - 7 March 2001
Issue No.523
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 1 - 7 March 2001 Issue No.523 |
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Productive thoughts
Regardless of all the talk about our economic problems -- the liquidity crisis, the price of the dollar, unemployment and administrative corruption -- one must not forget a very crucial point. Not that these problems are inconsequential in themselves: I simply feel that however much we discuss and attempt to solve them, and whatever the economic solutions we might resort to, we must not forget that real work resides solely in production.
The harder we work -- and it is quite conceivable that we could do independently -- the more likely we are to surpass any crisis. With a population of this size, too, our productivity is guaranteed, for one will multiply the gains made by millions, if this becomes our universally applicable habit.
How can anyone claim that Egyptians are not productive by nature, knowing that they cultivated the earth in pre-historic times, when agriculture was the only available form of economic production? It was only after the industrial revolution that we started falling behind, having taught the world agriculture. And now that we have already passed this era and witnessed the dawn of the electronic age, I feel we could remobilise and catch up. Perhaps then we will be as advanced and prosperous as we once were.
Based on an interview by Mohamed Salmawy.
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