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Cowboy Capitalists striking out to find their fortunes in the last Wild Westwww.youtube.com/watch?v=sVOOt1ymJ_4
93 sats \ 3 comments \ @AGORA 17 Jun AGORA
For maverick entrepreneur Ian Cox, Africa is the last frontier of free enterprise. In 2012 he nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries' embargo list.
The other problem: the journey north entails passing through countless checkpoints and dealing with bribe-happy officials and their nonsensical paperwork and regulations.
Photographer and filmmaker Tim Freccia followed around Ian and the guys he hired for this job. "Cowboy Capitalists" documents their attempts to navigate the continent's dangerous roads and bureaucratic chaos.
Originally published on ‪@VICE‬ in June 2013, and rereleased here for the first time in full.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 17 Jun
At first I was thinking, "bribes and nonsensical paperwork" doesn't sound very free enterprise to me.
But then I realized, it's probably better to just pay a bribe than to have a million regulations telling you what you can do and how you can do it.
Western officials may be less prone to bribery, but they are probably way more diligent to enforce the crazy pointless rules than African officials are. Maybe bribery is actually the better way.
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @AGORA OP 17 Jun
what's the difference of someone asking verbally and others putting it down on black on white? still bribery, thief. It's same thing. They try what they can, they make you believe they have authority over you, you trust them.
I enjoyed the bravery these group of Americans had exploring unknown territories, with all the risks it involved, they accomplished the mission. Pure wester style in modern times... Yeehaw!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @YewTuBot 18h freebie
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=sVOOt1ymJ_4