Chapter 1127 Entrepreneurial Team
And Bob can’t afford the salary now, so he can only cooperate with others to do business. There is no better choice than Li Laite, his high school friend.
But Li Laite also has his own concerns. As a scumbag who was trained in low-cost compulsory education in East Africa, Li Laite spends most of his time on campus, so he still hopes to have a stable job. .
The job assigned to Li Laite is that of a furniture factory worker, which is not much better than Bob’s linen textile factory. However, Li Laite thinks that he can still endure hardships. After all, in East African secondary education, students’ physical fitness is very important. They are all above the qualification line. Although they are not as good as many child laborers in Europe who are forced to work at a young age due to family and other reasons, they are not like the kind of nerds who cannot lift with their hands or carry on their shoulders.
This is actually easy to understand. The cost of education and physical education in East Africa is low. They don’t even need textbooks, nor do they need highly qualified physical education teachers. In addition, there are few class hours, lax management, and adequate sleep. Most students are in good health.
So Li Laite said: "I feel that I am still suitable for working in a furniture factory. After all, I don't have the hands-on ability like you. Although the work in the furniture factory is a bit tiring, it is more stable and there is no need to mess around."
Bob warned: "But the room for advancement is small. It is difficult to get ahead without connections. But starting a business with me is different. We are the bosses ourselves and can allocate our time freely." How much money we make depends entirely on our ability.”
“I am responsible for product production and you are responsible for sales. With this division of labor, we will definitely not make less than what we earn in the factory. Now that the policy has been relaxed, in the future. The freedom to choose one’s career is definitely the general trend.”
Bob knows that Lilite’s eloquence is good, at least much better than him, and Bob needs Lilite’s help in selling his products.
Li Laite nodded and said, "That makes sense, but I'm afraid my parents won't agree."
Bob: "Your parents can't control you forever. Besides, we are adults now and can make decisions about our own lives. Besides, except for us in East Africa, most countries in the world have free markets. In this case, start a business with me." It’s not shameful, we might be able to create the achievements of those mythical wealth in the United States..."
Under Bob’s affectionate and rational wooing, Li Laite finally relented and said: "We must do it. Otherwise, let’s give it a try first, and we’ll limit it to three days. If the sales results are good, I will work with you."
Bob nodded and said: "No problem, I will be responsible for providing the products, and you will go to the streets to sell them. We will make a final decision after looking at the results."
So the two people started a preliminary attempt, and Bob worked overnight to finish a batch of finished radios. The next day, Lilette took the rather crude finished products and started his own sales trip, which was somewhat similar to the street in his previous life. A salesperson who sells CDs or sneaks into schools to sell ballpoint pens.
Bob’s hand-made radio is relatively simple, but as an electronic product, it is still considered a high-end home appliance in East Africa.
After calculating the cost, the two set a relatively reasonable price, which is one-third lower than the sales price of radios on the market. Regardless of appearance and source, the specific functions are not much different.
To the surprise of the two, the product sold very well. As the most developed city in East Africa, Dar es Salaam’s citizens have good spending power. In just three days, eight items were sold. A radio, and when the accounts are divided, it is obviously much higher than the daily salary of factory work.
Looking at the profit of more than 20 Rhine guilders from selling hand-operated radios, Lilette was extremely excited: "Bob, this is the first time I have received such a large sum of money since I was a child. It's just It’s unimaginable to make so much in three days.”
Bob was also very excited: “I said this business has a great future, and the people in Dar es Salaam are rich. There are still many people, and we have underestimated the market potential. Now there are few people doing it in the market, which is our advantage. If we want to get the upper hand, we can be the first ones to eat crabs. This is better than working tirelessly in a factory. When we earn more, we may be able to open a small workshop. Finally, After upgrading to a factory, we can also become factory director level "Character." Li Liter was convinced by Bob's words. After all, real income is more inspiring than any words, and this strengthened the two people's confidence in starting a business. In this way, Bob and Li Liter made money by rubbing the radio with their hands. The first pot of gold in life.
In the future, these two young people relied on this business to further expand and strengthen, and established their own company, specializing in the production and sales of electrical products, which was considered a small achievement.
Across East Africa, there are many people like Bob and Lillet who choose to start their own businesses, and they have also created a large number of wealthy people. With the injection of foreign capital, the entire East African social economy is thriving.
Of course, due to the low start-up capital, the gap between private capital and state-owned capital in East Africa is still very significant. The East African government controls the lifeline of the national economy. East Africa still has a planned economic system, and the free market can only It is considered an important supplement to the current East African economy and has a small impact on the overall East African economy.
However, it has greatly improved the development of East Africa's service industry, light industry, and handicraft industry, making East Africa's industrial structure begin to develop more balanced and comprehensively.
This was accompanied by partial social turmoil in East Africa from 1911 to 1913. The liberalization of market competition directly led to operating difficulties for a number of East African state-owned enterprises, especially many small local enterprises that were not enterprising.
Such small local enterprises can easily be replaced by some handicraft workshops or other private enterprises, and the East African government has to upgrade and eliminate these enterprises.
The term unemployment also began to appear in East Africa, which led to a certain increase in criminal activities in East Africa, and the business volume of the East African police station also increased.
But the overall situation is within the control of the government. Although the unemployment problem occurs, it is not large-scale in the overheated economy. As long as you are not too lazy to work, you can basically find a job, but people's hearts cannot withstand the test. Some people want to take shortcuts and take risks.
The advantages and disadvantages of the New Economic Policy have begun to be clearly reflected, but compared to the degree of chaos in European and American societies, the overall social order in East Africa can be said to be very good.
In general, East Africa's economic development is now showing great vitality, and the industrial growth rate in East Africa has even exceeded the First Five-Year Plan and the Second Five-Year Plan.
According to common sense, the industrial development of East Africa during the Third Five-Year Plan period is unlikely to be more successful than the previous two Five-Year Plans. However, the new economic policy and large-scale borrowing are equivalent to injecting new blood into the East African economy.
During the Third Five-Year Plan period, East Africa was faced with the pressure of rapid population growth and the relative lag in overseas market expansion. Under this background, it achieved more brilliant development achievements than the first two Five-Year Plans. The new economy The policy has made great achievements.
In this regard, Ernst is happy to see the results. Although many problems have been caused in order to develop the economy, in order to deal with the problem of insufficient production capacity that may arise in the future war, these small problems can be ignored for the time being. After the war, it was enough to start making adjustments and solutions. Ernst only ensured that the general direction of the entire country was correct. As for detailed mistakes, many of them were unavoidable.
Even without the New Economic Policy, many corresponding social problems will arise in East Africa. Any policy should be adjusted to adapt to the development of the times. An unchanging society is a dead end.
(End of this chapter)