Made in Containers

Money is made in containers. Four key barriers to entry are nations, schools, universities, and businesses. You mostly don’t get selected for your Nation. That is primarily race and luck of the draw based. There are however countries that let you in based on selection criteria. I was born South African, did all my schooling in Westville (Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal) and worked at three Companies. In 2008, I moved to London on a points-based visa (salary, language, education, age). I renewed, then got indefinite leave to remain, then got a British Passport to add to my South African one. The whole (expensive) process took 7 years. After school, there were plenty of “sortings”. Times when other people had to decide whether I was good enough. With enough ambiguity in the process, and enough supply of applicants, to try hide the politics and hereditary privilege reinforcement. I mostly made it through, and was fortunate, but also got annoyed at the balance of power. For markets to work, the negotiation has to be between peers. With transparency, and the ability to walk away. The market for labour is lopsided. Containers aren’t people, even though we speak of them like they are. We’ll only see real meritocracy when containers are competing for people, rather than people for containers.