Really interesting to travel in the Ecuadoran Andes and see the musical roots of the first half of this song. Every band of musicians who came to the old haciendas-turned-B&B’s had this in their repertoire.
Interesting to note, as well that, the reason these properties catered to the tourist trade was that the large land holdings [mostly held by people of European descent] were broken up and returned to the indigenous people in the mid 90’s.
Pretty inspiring how their economy blossomed when former share-croppers were able to work for themselves and sell excess produce at the market. Not only did crop yields improve, but a little discretionary income spread wide at the bottom of the economic ladder meant an increasing need for consumer goods such as; shoes, clothing, home furnishings, building materials, etc. This demand led to an increase in jobs at the cobblers shop, and the textiles weavers, and the cabinet makers mill, etc.
We could take a lesson from their success, and rather than giving the Koch brothers each a billion dollars in tax breaks, give the two million poorest people each a thousand dollars. Which of these do you think will get the money back into the economy faster?
Not sure how I got here from a Paul Simon song, but its just where my mind wanders…
You mean, instead of destroying their country economically so they’d have to go into the factories and work for pennies?
Really interesting to travel in the Ecuadoran Andes and see the musical roots of the first half of this song. Every band of musicians who came to the old haciendas-turned-B&B’s had this in their repertoire.
Interesting to note, as well that, the reason these properties catered to the tourist trade was that the large land holdings [mostly held by people of European descent] were broken up and returned to the indigenous people in the mid 90’s.
Pretty inspiring how their economy blossomed when former share-croppers were able to work for themselves and sell excess produce at the market. Not only did crop yields improve, but a little discretionary income spread wide at the bottom of the economic ladder meant an increasing need for consumer goods such as; shoes, clothing, home furnishings, building materials, etc. This demand led to an increase in jobs at the cobblers shop, and the textiles weavers, and the cabinet makers mill, etc.
We could take a lesson from their success, and rather than giving the Koch brothers each a billion dollars in tax breaks, give the two million poorest people each a thousand dollars. Which of these do you think will get the money back into the economy faster?
Not sure how I got here from a Paul Simon song, but its just where my mind wanders…
You mean, instead of destroying their country economically so they’d have to go into the factories and work for pennies?