It makes me vomit a little bit in my mouth to hear a super corrupt billionaire, daughter of a guy who has been president in a country for 38 years, calling herself "entrepreneur".
EDIT: she was invited to the London School of Economics to give a lecture. WTF? What's next, Kim Jong Un giving a lecture in democracy?
The governments of first world countries exploit the people and encourage corruption every chance they get, because it's profitable for their corporations, and it keeps the people of Africa as slaves to the first word countries.
The UN watches, and does nothing.
I am in West Africa now. I have been to 15 countries here in the last 14 months. My eyes are open.
I am by no means condoning what the West is/has done. I however have a problem with my own people taking the lions share of any profits.
The intentional abuses of colonization were vile, but the neglectful exploitation of decolonization has hardly been better.
I think we just at a different development stage. The impact of corruption in Africa is more acute. The West have been building hospitals and schools for centuries. We were late to the party. Corruption means we don't have essentials, hospitals, running water, schools. People end up dying of diseases that have cures because there is no medicine.
In most non-Western countries, this level of trust or belief/existence of the judicial system is absent. Which increases the risk exponentially of investing, working etc.
Now of course, you do need a good education system to provide lawyers/judges and people of every skill level to man these institutions and keep them from corruption. So it does seem like a somewhat cyclical problem.
There are absolutely people who are out to exploit the poor and uneducated, but you make it sound as if someone wants to enslave for the purpose of enslaving.
I have no doubt in my mind that some people do want this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_School_of_Economics_Gad...
https://norighttobelieve.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/everybody-...
What does she use to get that weird, almost photoshopped like effect?
The overall focus in strongly divided into foreground features and very blurred background features. I haven't played around with the ability of the iPhone 7+ to do this blurring algorithmically, but it is very commonly done with SRL cameras by choosing a very shallow depth of field. This is done by using a large aperture, say f2 or f2.8. This wider open lens allows more of the outer, more curved, part of the lens to collect and focus light onto the image, and due to the geometry of the optics this makes the range of the scene that remains in sharp focus much shallower. (See, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field .) Notice particularly, the excellent bokeh formed by the blurred lights in the background. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh)
Finally, a flash combined with a wide open lens can overpower the exposure, a problem for film's limited range of sensitivity (film speed). Cameras can compensate for this by using insanely short exposures, like 1/8000 second, and/or adjusting the exposure sensitivity for a few individual shots (film cameras require changing film rolls to change sensitivity, but today's digital cameras can automatically change the sensitivity on a per shot basis). To me, the picture has a frozen, surreal aspect that can come from a high shutter speed.
All of these effects, which can be done with the appropriate camera settings, can also be simulated with enough Photoshop work. This particular photo could have just been produced serendipitously, especially in this age of unlimited snaps from cell phones that never run out of film, but it looks more professional to me. Consider the careful edge lighting that separates the hair from the background. (See https://www.slrlounge.com/5-ways-to-separate-your-subject-fr... )
The idea of startups is to fail fast, so if you can fail on your parents money till you're 21 that could also counts as an apprenticeship...
Friend of mine hand dentist parents. Did a few motion picture companies till 21, made almost no money with them and lived with his parents. Later he jumped on the VR bandwagon with 4 years of CEO expertise and got investors like nobodies business
in the US you have a lot of "self-made" people who wouldn't make it anywhere if the US didn't keep its imperialism, which generally kills more people than that regime, but it's ok right as you are the benefitor of something which happened somewhat far away from you, correct? not really.
becoming an entrepreneur is something only some people can afford to.
it's just life.
What an appallingly paralysing way to view things.
See Revolution on Animal Farm: Orwell's Neglected Commentary.
Sure the established corporations do make a ton of money from international trade (Oil, Manufacturing, Electronics etc.).
He has to pay the taxes and has his social programs gutted to finance imperialist policies that primarily benefit the connected ultra rich, who might let him have a few crumbs of their wealth.
Some benefit.