I wanna be rich

A worrying picture: A recent survey amongst the rural Ugandan population has shown that out of all possible things, 62% of young Ugandans have named "Being rich" as "most important thing in life". While there's nothing wrong with being rich, it is the pronounced gap between "being rich" and anything else.

Aehm, I don't mean to be a know-it-all, but money should come in return for some valuable job done or some valuable product delivered... not just by itself. So, just wanting to be rich and not caring how, why or with what sounds like someone's looking for a shortcut. Being promoted and awarded benefits for looking smart, being smart or talking smart... but not actually performing and producing. Unfortunately, I already had too many opportunities to witness this attitude - and it is this attitude which opens the doors to bribery, corruption and theft. Multiply this with Uganda's steep population growth (800,000 new Ugandans every year)... this is not a good mix. I'm starting to think that besides all the technical work we do here, population growth and attitudes are key to development...