Zimbabwe needs financial intelligence

You only have to listen to the conversations taking place on social media to come up with one conclusion: we're talking ourselves into poverty. Our mindset is wrong in terms of finding solutions to our challenges. We are quick to go off topic and resort to personal banter at the detriment of learning from the experiences of others. 

Financial matters invariably invoke emotional responses indicative of bad financial experiences, debt, and regret. The negative manifestation quickly kills the discussion and replaces it with a hostile and ignorant political rant. You will not believe the acres of space dedicated to nothing but ignorant intolerance towards diversity of ideas. 

The level of financial ignorance partly explains the economic situation Zimbabwe is in. For the first 15 years of our independence we had no clue that the government was setting us up for decades of economic hardships. We assumed the government knew what it was doing and patiently waited for a life of abundance after the inequality and brutality of a minority colonial government. 

We must take good lessons from the mistakes of a post colonial government and change the way we think about money, capital, and wealth creation. We have unlimited access to a knowledge base facilitated by the information technology revolution. It has availed many more platforms than previously available.