Since the early days of settlement on these shores, the early settlers met an agrarian society with whom they started trading. During the first few years of the colony, almost everyone started trading goods in one way or the other.
Our problem today is that this mentality still persists. Everyone you meet wants to start a business. If you inquire enough, you will learn that their idea of a business is buying wholesale and selling retail. There is nothing wrong with this in particular, but on the whole, it creates a society full of traders basically adding value on already existing products.
In the long run, what we need are more producers, people producing goods with local produce and raw materials. In todays society, the real money is made by anybody importing goods into the country, and we know exactly who that is.
So, in order to start increasing our GNP, start producing something from scratch instead of trading. In time your product, if it meets up to standard will help to fill some of the voids today filled by imported goods.
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