Myanmar's Future Vision

Before we continue, I want to admit that I know little of Myanmar’s past, politics, events, situations, and current details. However, I have a vision of Myanmar’s future. My family and I would like to share that vision with all of you. Also, I will admit that I am a Burmese and Chinese American, so much of my insight will be from American and Burmese perspectives and experiences. 

Also, the emphasis of this article is a dedication and tribute to Myanmar, but the reality is that these ideas are meant for all locations all around the world. We can save everyone. As ideas have been shared with me, I share these ideas here with you, and I ask that you share these ideas with others too. In time, I will be sharing these ideas with much of SEA (Southeast Asia) personally, and maybe even beyond. 

I will ignore most of the current events going on in Myanmar. For that, I will allow you to do your own research. I will say that in Myanmar’s history, there have been many civil wars. I will not get into the differences, politics, and views of each side. In the end, Burmese have been killing Burmese regardless of their reasons. Because of the civil wars in Myanmar that have been happening for decades, we now have a country in which the children of Myanmar have grown up, become soldiers, and are killing the other side's children that have grown up to become soldiers too. At some point during Myanmar’s history, the children of Myanmar went astray and became lost. Sadly, that is not new in the history of many civilizations. Even in Myanmar and Thailand’s histories, both sharing the same origins, in the past they lost their way and fought each other. Today, Burmese and Thai show each other their strength, not on the battlefield, but in the ways in which they have learned to work together to make their communities better. 

Much of the blame is placed on the Myanmar military. The Myanmar military was meant to protect the people and fought for the people. In fact, Myanmar’s military was the reason for Myanmar’s own independence from occupation, freedom, and defense against invasion. During these times, all Burmese fought on the same side. Right now, there is no one outside of Myanmar trying to occupy and take over Myanmar. There are no soldiers at our borders. There are no other military personnel from anywhere in the world in Myanmar trying to occupy Myanmar. Was the reason all of those Burmese fought and died in so many wars and fought for freedom and independence so we could fight ourselves? Did we show the entire world how powerful Burmese can be when we come together, so that we can have a future where we fight each other? A future in which our children grow up to fight each other. If you take children from all over Myanmar and put them together, they will all play together, love each other, and be friends. Then, why is there fighting in Myanmar for some adults? When did we teach our children to hate other Burmese people? When did we fail them?

In the US, the US military understands that their sole purpose is to protect America and save American lives. Everything they do is for America. The different branches of the US military, like the Marines, Navy, Army, and Air Force, are not fighting each other or the American people, or controlling the people, but together, they are protecting and fighting for America. The American military has even fought side by side with other countries as well. During America's independence, America signed into the very core of American values the Declaration of Independence that stated "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Even today, Americans are protecting other people’s lives. Unfortunately, not everything the Myanmar military does is for Myanmar. Like anyone who is lost, we must help show them the way. The truth is that not every Myanmar citizen is doing things for Myanmar too. We all must share in that blame. We must help show all Burmese the way by leading the way. We do not criticize or blame people for being lost. We lead them down the right path. We have to lead them down the right path. We must break all of the cycles that are holding Myanmar back. We must break all of the chains weighing Myanmar down. For that, I empower all of us to be the difference we want to see in Myanmar, so that one day, our children will see that difference. 

Think about oppression. If Myanmar was oppressed at one time, the people of Myanmar united against that oppression. At one point, Myanmar was free and democratic. Think about people all over Myanmar. Myanmar has a bunch of rice farmers. During a time of freedom, those farmers could do anything they wanted, but they planted rice. They planted rice before a time of freedom, planted rice during freedom, and planted rice back under military rule. Freedom, in that regard, did not change or help them in any way. Does this diminish the value of freedom? Not at all, but freedom in many ways is a tool. A tool not used does not help any farmer. Also, we need to understand from the example of rice farmers that freedom is not merely a solution but a means by which we can utilize solutions by having freedom.

Once people identify oppression, they resist and go against oppressors, but in our own oppression, we have no issues. If we tell these rice farmers to be rice farmers for the rest of their lives, their children must be rice farmers, and their grandchildren too must be rice farmers, all of these farmers would be angry. However, these rice farmers allow the systems in place to create generation after generation of rice farmers and have no issues. Granted, the freedom to choose makes a huge difference, but the outcomes in both situations of the farmer having freedom and the farmer not having freedom are the same. We must break oppression, but we must also break our own cycles of self-oppression. In the US, we have identified some cycles as being generational poverty. General poverty is when people remain in poverty, do not break out of poverty, their children grow up in that same poverty, and repeat the same cycle for generations. 

Those cycles of self-oppression for the rice farmer and generational poverty are the same in many other ways to other cycles. If we help bring internet and computers to an area that never had internet and computers, but we do not teach them how to use those tools to help them, then in most cases, those computers go unused, people play games on them, go on social media, watch videos that have no educational value, do nothing to better themselves, or gain little to nothing from these computers. The internet is the sum of all human knowledge.

We have given those people immediate access to the knowledge of the entire world, yet they gain so little. We may go back to these villages 10 years later, and see little to no change. Actually, we do not need to look at farmers, people have cell phones almost everywhere, and what do they do with them? We must help teach them and give them opportunities. Yes, we need freedom, but freedom is only a means. Freedom is a means to help us reach our goals, but if we have no goals, then freedom may not mean much. We need to help people fight against poverty and malnutrition, but we must not forget that there are wars being fought on many different battlefields, and not all battlefields are physical. Many people all over the world are fighting the wars against poverty, education, malnutrition, climate change, deforestation, overfishing, and many others. 

We must help them fight those wars instead of fighting each other. As of now, Burmese all over Myanmar are measuring success based on one war, but we do not realize that we are losing the wars in many other areas. Against an unjust military, people want to rise up, but against the unforeseen enemy called poverty, we sit idly by, too willing to do nothing. We blame militaries for being dictators, oppressing people, and, in some cases, committing genocide and racism. Yet, poverty does not care and will oppress indiscriminately, poverty will be the rulers of entire areas in Myanmar and not let anyone out of poverty's grasp, poverty will take away all of our freedoms, and poverty will kill more people than any war. In fact, poverty takes more lives worldwide than all of the wars being fought right now. [poverty death toll] Are we as diligent in our pursuit to fight the war against poverty as we are to fight each other? Build a place to teach and train people all over the world to help fight against poverty in their areas and other areas. Help fight the war against poverty in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and everywhere else. 

As of now, there are people in Myanmar willing to die for our country. That is absolutely wrong and heartbreaking. Is that what we will teach our children? That we should grow up in a Myanmar in which we believe we should be willing to die for Myanmar by fighting each other. We can change that. We can correct that mentality. We can change our future into a future in which the children of Myanmar grow up doing their best to live for Myanmar. To do everything they can to live as long as they can, so that they can protect Myanmar with their life by living their life in the pursuit to protect Myanmar, and not live their life so willing to lose their life for Myanmar. 

If you truly love Myanmar, then give your life to save Myanmar by dedicating your life and not by losing your life. If you are willing to die for Myanmar, then you are giving your life to war. If you are willing to live for Myanmar, then you are giving your life to make Myanmar better with every breath you take. We must teach our children to live for Myanmar. This new future Myanmar will be truly changed by those that lived for Myanmar instead of dying for Myanmar. For all of the problems in Myanmar, we are going to need everyone we can in Myanmar to help fix these problems, and we can no longer afford to spare anyone and lose anyone anymore. Every person we have lost is a person that could have helped us plant thousands of fruit trees, helped us teach thousands of students, helped us build thousands of homes, helped us solve thousands of problems, and had children to help do tens-of-thousands of more things for Myanmar. 

I remember the very first time I went to Myanmar. I was 19 years old. All I had known up until that moment was America. Everything I knew about the world was from the perspective of America, and things I saw on TV, in the news, movies, and in books. I remember being so excited for my first visit to Myanmar. Even as a kid, my family would tell me all of these amazing stories. My older brothers and sisters would tell me stories about running, playing, climbing trees, picking fruits, and handing the fruits back down to the rest of the brothers and sisters and their friends. Even as a kid in the US, I had moments where friends and I got to climb up trees and pick fruits. Even before my trip, my family would tell me some fun stories and things about Myanmar. One of them was about the story of monks. 

In Myanmar, they told me that anyone can put on Buddhist robes and be a monk for any reason. If they were stressed, feeling unhappy, or needed a break from work, for any reason, they could put on monk robes and travel around Myanmar. The people in Myanmar would provide these monks with food, shelter, and anything else they needed. Eventually, if they desired, the monks could return to their lives or start a new life. I always thought that was a beautiful story that spoke about the culture of Myanmar. (I won’t go into my own religious upbringing, but I will admit I have read from or about Catholicism, the Bible, Buddhism, Eightfold path, Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism, Islamic, Greek, Norse gods, and Western and European philosophies from Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, Native American philosophies, Egyptian pharaohs and gods, and religions and cultures of Africa, Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs.) 

Although; I am a Burmese and Chinese American, I grew up around every ethnicity. I had friends that were Chinese, Caucasian, African, Filipino, Japanese, Irish, Mexican, Ecuadorian, German, Italian, Samoan, Tongan, Fijian, Indian, and many other ethnicity and races. Also, I had friends that I never knew their ethnicity. The first thing I realized in Myanmar was that almost everyone was Burmese. Granted, in the US, I grew up around everyone, and with everyone, I was always the only Burmese kid. I never had any Burmese friends and never really knew anyone Burmese aside from my own immediate family and relatives. I was always the “minority,” but being Burmese made me a minority among minorities. Being in Myanmar for the first time, I was finally a part of the majority. Instead of me speaking Burmese at home and only at home, I was somewhere where everyone spoke Burmese. Instead of seeing my family wear the Burmese Longyi and Paso at home, everyone wore the Longyi and Paso outside. I never felt alone growing up, but in that moment, I definitely felt a part of something larger and “less alone” in this world. Of course, I am undeniably an American, but I felt a part of me awaken. 

Even now, I carry America in my heart, but I did not realize a part of me was missing something, until I found what was missing. When I was with Filipino friends, they always had other Filipino friends. If I was with them, sometimes they would speak Tagalog, but I did not speak Tagalog. In those moments, I would feel excluded. During times I was with my Chinese friends, sometimes they would speak Chinese, and I did not speak Chinese. Any friend I hung out with had their own ethnicity, and they almost always could speak their own language together. There was no one other than relatives for me to speak Burmese with until I went to Myanmar. In Myanmar, I finally got to experience what it meant to be a part of a Burmese community. 

I was walking down the street with my brother in Myanmar, and I saw a glass bowl in a tree with money inside. I was shocked, to say the least. If that bowl were in the area I grew up in as a kid, the bowl and the money would be gone. My brother told me that the bowl was for the local monastery, and people would put money inside the bowl. The monks would come by and pick up the donations. In a third-world country where people are some of the poorest in the world, a bowl with money inside could exist in the middle of the street. Car doors were never locked, and most of the time the windows were left rolled down. I grew up in an area where I was always told to make sure everything was locked. “Make sure to lock the door when you leave the house. Make sure to lock the car door when you get out. Make sure to lock your bikes up.” I asked one of our Burmese friends if anything ever gets stolen, and he said that maybe some times someone would steal a cigarette, but if you ever needed a cigarette, you could take one from a car too.  

Burmese people helped each other a lot more than where I grew up at that time. People in my area helped each other, but usually people kept to themselves. Any time people needed help, they rarely asked their neighbors. Everyone would ask their friends. In Myanmar, people talked to each other a lot more, with random strangers, and everywhere I went. As kids in the US, we were always told that strangers should not be trusted. In Myanmar, everyone seemed to trust each other. As a kid, we always looked out for each other and other kids in the street. In Myanmar, kids ran around everywhere, carefree. On a road trip, a bridge broke over a small stream. Everyone in that area came together to fix the bridge. 

I have been to certain Catholic and Christian areas in the US that have the same principles. My first visit to South Dakota was similar to Myanmar in a lot of positive ways. In Myanmar, people left their doors unlocked, people helped each other, socialized, were not judgmental, played music in the streets, trusted each other, and did many other great things. South Dakota was the same except for not playing music out loud. Also, my first visit to Myanmar was during the water festival, which was absolutely one of the most amazing experiences of my life. An entire country was having a water fight with music, happiness, food, and everyone from every age smiling and laughing everywhere. 

In my first visit to Myanmar, I experienced love, trust, carefree and easy-going people, peacefulness everywhere, happy people, belonging, unity, forgiveness, cooperation, the feeling that no one ever judged anyone else, and acceptance. I had read many different philosophies and religions before my trip to Myanmar. During my visit, I really felt like Buddha was living among all of the Burmese Buddhist people. Is this what a majority Buddhist country is like? That is the Myanmar that I know from experience and that I know in my heart. What Myanmar will there be for my children to experience one day? There is no other Myanmar, so I hope the Myanmar my children experience is the one I will always keep in my heart.  

Even during my own recent visit to Myanmar, I got to work with Catholic nuns helping Buddhist people in the community. I am not a fan of anyone trying to convert people from other religions. I think part of respect is respecting other people’s choices, so I was happy to see Catholic nuns helping provide education and lunch without trying to convert. They chose to prioritize education and help over religious beliefs. Myanmar needs to prioritize education and help over political beliefs. At times, religious beliefs can draw lines and barriers instead of bringing everyone together. My own personal belief is that if Jesus and Buddha met, they would have worked together, shared knowledge, shared food, and helped people together. 

We have to remember that Buddha never called what he was teaching Buddhism. Jesus never called what he was teaching Christianity. These are names we gave to each of their teachings, and in those names, at times, we unintentionally created division. The reality is that both Jesus and Buddha taught us how to help others, how to make ourselves better, and how to have compassion and love for each other. Both committed their entire lives to helping people, and they both left everything they had behind. To me, their beliefs were more similar than different. Think about children. Children never ask each other what religion they are. Children play, laugh, take care of each other, smile, help each other, and have fun together. They do not complicate things more than what is needed to have fun and love each other. 

One of my very first childhood friends outside of school was an Indian girl who was a neighbor. I never knew her name, her religion, or really anything about her. We just ran around and played together and discovered the world together. I got a cut one time. She brought me to the front of her house, told me this plant is called aloe, cut a piece of aloe off, rubbed aloe on my cut, said it would make things better, then we went and played some more. Sometimes things really are that simple. All of Myanmar must be that simple. During my first visit to Myanmar during the water festival, Burmese, Indian, Chinese, and every other race were having fun together.  

In the US, we have all kinds of systems in place that are working towards making America better. The military is one example, but all throughout the US are systems that are striving, fighting, working hard, and leading the way for all Americans. These systems are run by Americans of all races and backgrounds who come together with a purpose. In our political system, we have Democrats and Republicans. No matter which party is in power, no matter how many disagreements and arguments, America has risen and improved president after president because both parties strive to make America better. From the outside, we may see arguments, but on the inside, most of the time, Republicans and Democrats argue over the best way to make things better. They both have great ideas for how America can and will be better, but they may have two different paths to get there. However, in almost every case, both are striving to reach the same goals. Make America better. When both agree, even better things happen.  

That is part of the reason why America has been so successful. People having great ideas, trying to decide which idea is best, and not which idea best serves their own purposes. We can identify purposes fairly easily. Ask yourself, your organization, and your community: What are our goals, and what is our purpose? How is what we are doing helping to achieve that purpose? If their purpose and goals are not the goals you believe in, then you are not fulfilling your own purpose in life. That is part of the reason why one-party systems are not always so successful. They have one way of trying to accomplish the goals, and that may not always be the best. Especially if they have removed all opposition to their way of doing things. Then, if they are wrong, no one will tell them how wrong they are and help them.  

Other types of systems in the US are regulations. These systems come in the form of regulating various things and creating standards. That regulation is for the benefit of the overall system, not just the individuals or the few. A few examples are fishing and hunting regulations. These systems are put in place so that no individual or group will remove or destroy resources to the point that no one will be able to enjoy or have these resources for future generations. We regulate fishing, so that the fish can recover from the fish that we have taken. Fishing regulations allow everyone who wants to fish to have a reasonable chance to catch fish, and we still have a thriving fishing market for commercial fishing. We understand that power without control and balance can become a devastating force, especially, if that power heads in the wrong direction. We see this everywhere. An avalanche that heads toward a town, a tsunami that heads toward a village, and an army that heads to take over another country. We see destruction in their paths.  

We have systems that protect animals. If you own pets or animals in the US, we have people and regulations that protect them and their living conditions. If you own a horse in the US, do not take care of the horse, the horse is in bad health and living conditions, the US government will come take that horse and find that horse a better home. Myanmar needs to create systems in place of regulation, so that we can benefit from the results that regulations bring. We need to create more self-sustaining systems that will ensure we create things for future generations and not only take away from future generations. When we do things in a way that is not sustainable, we take away from our children, our grandchildren, and all future generations. 

Do not wait for the government, the military, or anyone else. Create those regulations in your own areas. If there is a river with fish, create your own local regulations that limit the number of fish caught, create better conditions for that fish to thrive, increase the population, check for the impact that fish population is having on the local environment and other species, and find self-sustaining ways to keep that system operating. That way, we will have fish, our children will have fish, our neighbors will have fish, and our grandchildren will eat that fish too.

In Thailand, people raise chickens and let them run around. People can work with each other, count the total number of chickens, find others with chickens, start to trade chickens with each other to continue to add genetic diversity to their populations, and keep raising chickens. With the surplus of chickens, they can give chickens to other Thai people in less suitable financial situations. It is that easy. These systems seem complex, but they are actually quite simple to start, maintain, and improve. If they continue to organize into larger systems, they can actually combine eggs to sell at the local market. They can start an actual community cooperative egg farm easily. Granted, people would need to regulate the types of foods the chickens eat to make sure the eggs meet a certain standard.

The regulation systems in the US were put in place by people just like us. No different than any of us. Their difference was that they chose to make a difference. They chose to fight to protect animals, the land, fish, the US, and the world. We must all strive to protect Myanmar for the future. Not only for today, but for every day. We must make those same systems in Myanmar that are making every single aspect of the US better. Not only for ourselves, our groups, and our organizations, but for all Burmese today and all Burmese that have yet to be born. Also, everyone that comes to Myanmar should see how beautiful Myanmar is and share in the same love of Myanmar as we do. Right now, Myanmar is still a child. We must love, nurture, and care for that child, so that one day that child grows up to lead and take care of all of Myanmar’s people.  

We must cultivate environments all over Myanmar where Burmese people constantly think about ways in which we can improve everything. We must empower Burmese, not with guns, but with their hearts and minds, so that we can and will make a difference. Guns run out of bullets, but I guarantee you that a well-trained and educated Burmese citizen with courage, conviction, and love for Myanmar will never run out of ideas. Even during the writing of this article and my own growing of fruits and vegetables, I am creating and learning new methods and changing the ways in which I do things.  

As for the other various systems all over the US, we have nonprofits, groups, communities, individuals, and people helping to make America better. We have communities that have started vegetable gardens to help grow fresh local vegetables to help people. We had people in US history that worked with local people, created larger groups, worked with presidents, and created conservation of US land. Because of them, we have beautiful national parks all over the US like Yosemite, Yellowstone, Zion, Glacier, Grand Teton, Arches, Bryce Canyon, Sequoia, Grand Canyon, Great Smokey Mountains, Katmai, Denali, Kenai Fjords, Mount Rainier, Glacier Bay, Shenandoah, Redwood, Voyageurs, North Cascades, Kings Canyon, Mesa Verde, Theodore Roosevelt, Badlands, and Wind Cave National parks. The first national park in the US was Yellowstone National Park, which was established in 1872. 

Yellowstone National Park was created 151 years ago (using the current 2023 year) by people who had the vision, insight, and will to protect US land, so that today, 151 years later, we too can enjoy and see all of the beauty that they saw at that time. Take in mind, too, that they decided to preserve that land when the US had a huge abundance of land everywhere. They did not preserve land when land needed to be preserved, but preserved land because they understood the value of preserving that land for the future. Not only for Americans, but people from all over the world come to these national parks to enjoy that same beauty. Because of their actions, people went around the world to other countries and helped them understand the value of creating and preserving their own national parks.  

Even going further and creating world heritage sites and understanding the value of places based on human history and achievements. Even better, because of their hard work and sacrifice, our children, children’s children, and future generations will all get to enjoy all of the beautiful national parks all over the US. Based on one study, the total amount of land that is conserved in the US is larger than the size of Vietnam or Finland. Besides the national parks, we have state parks and many other lands that are protected by the US. We have local people who try to preserve local landmarks in their neighborhoods. We have people who volunteer all throughout the US for various causes. Do the Burmese people not see the value in our own country? Do Burmese not see the value in Myanmar? We must have a vision for Myanmar 100+ years into the future too. 

These systems have grown well beyond the US. There are US nonprofits all over the world trying to make people’s lives better. Americans donate the most money of any country to help people all over the world live better lives. America is the person who gained wealth, and decided to give back to the world, not just take. [donation] Not by a little either, but more than the next closest donors combined, they still do not match the US in donations and foreign aid. People have united all around the world with these nonprofit systems. Now, we have systems all over the world saving lives, helping people in poverty, helping reach the UN 17 goals, helping to save animals, helping to save the climate, helping to end wars, helping children, helping women, helping communities, building and running schools, and helping to save the planet in ways in which we did not even know needed saving. 

What future will Myanmar be for the world? A country that fought so hard to gain independence and freedom to give so little back to the world? Burmese were working together to face and overcome far superior countries, but not working together to face all of the other problems in Myanmar. Independence was only the beginning of the challenges Myanmar or any country must face. In US history, America too fought for independence and won. However, America did not stop there. Thankfully, Americans have never stopped fighting for what is right and for what is just. The US has fought for independence, their freedom, other people’s freedom, women’s rights, equal rights, human rights, animal rights, fighting against poverty, fighting against climate change, and is still fighting together and building larger and larger armies of people helping worldwide. Many countries have joined together in these fights, too. Is Myanmar so busy fighting each other that we cannot help the world in their fights against these other causes?

As for Myanmar, we need these types of systems. We need not just large systems to protect and preserve all of the beautiful places all over Myanmar, but we also need systems to help make every part of Myanmar better. If you are not a part of a system, group, community, or organization that is helping to make Myanmar better or helping Myanmar solve any of the UN’s 17 goals, then create these groups. If you are not helping to solve poverty in Myanmar, then join a group or start one. If you are not helping to end malnutrition in Myanmar, join a group or start one. If you are waiting for things to get better, then you are only hoping things get better. Help make Myanmar better, and Myanmar will be better. There is no hoping, and blaming anyone will not solve Myanmar’s problems.  

We can solve many of Myanmar’s problems. They are simple. They may seem difficult, but they are simple. The issue is the size and scale of these problems. The size of Myanmar’s problems are huge and difficult by any measure, but the solutions are small, simple, and easy. The great news is that the solutions are easy to scale. That is the true power of those solutions. Because we can scale these small solutions to large sizes, we can solve these large problems. That is extremely important to understand. The larger problems are solvable. We can solve them. We can solve them with everyone helping, even a little bit. Together, we will solve all of the problems. Together, every little thing we do will combine into large solutions to solve these large problems.  

We need to understand that there is no other Myanmar. There is only one Myanmar. If we do not do everything in our power to make Myanmar better, there will be no other Myanmar for our children. From each border to border and every inch of Myanmar is your home, our home, our family’s home, and our children’s home. Do not think that your home is your house or your land, and anything outside of that is not your home. That is absolutely wrong. That is part of the reason why Myanmar has so much trash all around. In America, our home is not only the house we live in but also the streets we live on, the communities we live in, the state we live in, and the country we live in. America is our home.  

Thankfully, many Americans made conservation and protection not only written into laws but an American culture. Most Americans do not throw trash on the ground. We have to make conservation and the protection of Myanmar our culture. Throwing garbage in the trash and cleaning up garbage is our responsibility. Myanmar is our home. We must teach every Burmese citizen that Myanmar is their home. If you see any Burmese person throw trash, tell them right away that this is our home. One day, the Burmese will not call any part of Myanmar a battlefield. They will call every part of Myanmar their home. Does this mean that Burmese living in the US, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, and everywhere else in the world cannot call those places their home? Not at all, but Myanmar will always be their home, their children’s home, and every generation after that too. Myanmar must be our home for thousands of generations after us because there is no other Myanmar that any of us can call home besides the one Myanmar we have.  

That is why nationalism is so important. We must love our country. Have the desire to make Myanmar better. Do not hope Myanmar will get better. Make Myanmar better. Tell your friends to make Myanmar better. If you love Myanmar like I love Myanmar, then help me make Myanmar better. Not just for us, but for every Burmese child that has yet to be born. Let them be born into the most beautiful Myanmar that we could have ever given them to call home. Right now, tell yourself that you are a Burmese nationalist. You love Myanmar. You want to make Myanmar the best. You want to protect Myanmar for future generations. You are proud to be Burmese. The same goes for other countries. If you are a Thai person, then you should be a Thai nationalist and tell everyone that you love Thailand. If you are from Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, or any other country, love your country. If you truly love your country, then make your country better. If you are in a village or community that is not working toward making Myanmar better, then lead them. Do not wait for a leader to lead you because you are hoping that a leader will lead you. Lead them. Help them. Help save them. 

Myanmar is still vastly underdeveloped. In 2023, the US has rockets that can fly and land themselves, self-driving cars, and artificial intelligence, but Myanmar still has people all over the country living in bamboo and tin huts. Myanmar is so far behind. Not just a little bit, but in every way. Yes, Myanmar has a lot of products, but this is because people in Myanmar have money to buy products. However, the means of complex production are missing. Lack of production helps contribute to the lack of facilities, the lack of higher-quality jobs, the lack of higher salaries, and higher rates of unemployment. Lack of manufacturing jobs does not always equal a worse economy. The US has shown that when many manufacturing jobs left the US, the US created new jobs in other sectors. Interestingly enough, as the business dynamics have changed, manufacturing jobs have returned to the US, but these jobs that have returned are far more complex jobs. The jobs that left were sewing factories back in the 80’s and 90’s. Some of the jobs that have returned are self-driving electric car assembly lines. In some cases (and with a certain level of irony), manufacturing jobs left the US to other countries that have gotten richer from those manufacturing jobs, and then those companies have come back to the US to create manufacturing plants and jobs back in the US to employ Americans. Unfortunately, Myanmar is not always as innovative, so many jobs were not and still are not created. We can change that.  

We must start manufacturing products back in Myanmar. On every scale and at every level. We must all agree that we will make Myanmar better than Myanmar has ever been. Help me, and I will tell you some of the ways we can make Myanmar the best. Does that mean that Myanmar has not made major advances? Of course not. Myanmar has Yangon, a city that has many of the same luxuries experienced in other cities around the world. However, all of Myanmar is not Yangon, and Yangon is not San Francisco. Does this diminish all of the accomplishments in Yangon? Not at all. That statement means that Yangon still has a lot of possibilities to grow and develop. Myanmar still has a lot to grow, which means that Myanmar still has so much unseen potential. If Myanmar’s great future is that one piece of the puzzle, then we must all head out to help attain that one piece.  

Our vision must be to make Myanmar better, end poverty, end malnutrition, clean Myanmar, make Myanmar have more self-sustaining systems, create systems that make Myanmar better and preserve Myanmar, and help other people in the world. We cannot always look to others to help us. Not when we can show the world how powerful we truly are when we help each other. We will help all Burmese because they are all our brothers and sisters, and we all live together. Imagine a Myanmar where, everywhere any Burmese person goes, there are fruits and vegetables to eat. We can pull over on the side of the road and pick fruits.  

I usually do not add religion, but Myanmar is majority Buddhist. Imagine a Myanmar where we give monks the best fruits and vegetables to eat, so they can live 100+ years. Monks, priests, and religious people travel all throughout Myanmar. Imagine them being able to pick fruits anywhere they like and traveling to help people. We can make this a reality. We can do this. If we are adults, then there is no one older than us who can make the change. The responsibility has finally fallen on us. Will we not take on that responsibility to make Myanmar better? 

Ending malnutrition in Myanmar seems almost impossible and the scale so large. How can we solve the lack of nutrition and food to people all over Myanmar? We can, and we will. First, make sure you tell yourself that. That we can, and we will. We will turn Myanmar into the largest plant and tree nursery in the world because every Myanmar citizen will grow fruits and vegetables. Not just for themselves, but for everyone else in Myanmar. Burmese nationalist grow food so others can eat, and not only for themselves. 

We will start by growing seeds from the foods that we eat. If you eat 10 mangoes, and throw away all of the seeds, you will need to buy more mangoes. If you eat 10 mangoes and plant 10 trees from the mango seeds, then many more people will eat mangoes from your trees every year. This Agriculture101 website was created to help us along the way. 

The first part is to understand the basics of growing. The great news is that I do not have a background in Agriculture, but I was able to grow plenty of fruits and vegetables and learn the techniques. Once we start growing the plants and trees, we need to locate places to plant these fruit trees. If you live in the city, planting trees is not practical, so grow vegetables. Grow as many vegetables as you can and place them in pots. However, there are ways to create and keep fruiting trees small, so there is still a way to grow fruit trees in pots in the city. 

Pots and soil are an investment. Yes, pots cost some money, and soil can cost some money, but when we grow vegetables to eat, we make that money back. That means that the pot and soil are not an expense, but an investment. We need to make small investments, and teach other Burmese how to make micro-investments in their future. Think about a bucket. A bucket is an expenditure, but a bucket that collects rain water is an investment. If we need to pay for water, then all of the rain water we collect in our bucket saves us money to water our plants during times of little to no rain.

Once we are able to grow vegetables, we need to work with people in our community to combine these vegetables together to give to people. From my visit to Yangon, I was easily able to identify areas where I could give people free vegetables. This should not be difficult for people in the community to identify people and locations that people will benefit from the free food. We can get people within the community to do pick-ups and deliveries of fruits and vegetables. That will allow us the ability to coordinate together and organize people into growing the same vegetables, how to grow vegetables, and work together. 

Another way to help if you live in the city is to grow herbs and vegetables like amaranthus blitnum, banana pepper, bell pepper, basil, dill, chili, parsley, pea, cilantro, celery, and scallion. We can use these to increase our nutrition, as well as give some to our neighbors. Some of the plants can be continuously grown and harvested, are small and easy to grow in pots, and get us used to growing plants. A few of the plants can be cut and replanted to give to our neighbors. If everyone begins this process, then we can slowly provide more nutrition to everyone. In the larger vision, we will start a culture of Burmese that is finding more and more ways to grow all sorts of edible plants in small areas. We can start with balconies. People who have balcony areas can convert some of them into small nurseries. A few of these plants will grow in the shade, so they may be grown indoors or near windows. 

In the US, people all over are growing vegetables and edible plants at home. I personally did not get a chance to, but I was going to convert my living room in the US to a microgreen farm. [microgreen farm] We can easily start with one rack indoors and scale up to more. Microgreens are very nutritious and grow in a fraction of the time it would take for a fully mature plant to grow. Microgreens also need fewer products to grow because the seeds provide much of the nutrients needed to grow. In time, as we help Myanmar grow all sorts of vegetables, we will get the benefits of having seeds from all sorts of plants. We can and will easily supply microgreen farms for people all over and reduce the price of seeds by growing things in large amounts. 

(I want to take a little bit of time to share and understand the basic concept of invasive species. These are species of plants, trees, animals, and other things that are not native to a location. Bringing in new products can be great, but the wrong products can be detrimental to a location. Here is a list of invasive species. https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/species-profiles-list . Also, depending on your location, I would work with the government, specific and specialized entities, and universities to identify plants and trees suitable for import. Here is the wiki article on invasive species. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species ) 

Even within the city, there are places to grow fruit trees. Fruit trees can grow very large, but they do not have to grow large. We can cut the tops of the trees and keep them smaller or keep trees in reasonably small pots. In the grow guide, I go over techniques to keep trees smaller. Honestly, if you see reasonable locations all throughout the city, plant a fruit tree. There were so many places on the street in Yangon where a fruit tree could be planted. I saw a piece of military owned land with a fence. We can plant fruit trees all along the fence. Realistically, plant fruit trees just about everywhere you can plant fruit trees. As we grow and plant more, we will get better at growing and planting, and pick better locations. 

For now, plant vegetables and fruit trees anywhere that reasonably makes sense. If you see an empty field, empty land, as long as planting something there is reasonable, plant fruit trees there. Is there some old soccer field that nobody uses anymore? Are there dilapidated buildings with yards that no one uses anymore? Plant fruit trees there. Do this for Myanmar. Do this to feed each other. So that one day, when that tree grows fruit, any Burmese will have food to eat. Later on, we will organize into collection groups to harvest fruits all over for people in poverty, the elderly, schoolchildren, and every other place we can find to give food. 

The issue we have is a lack of food, not an abundance of food. Trust me, when the day comes that we have so much food that we do not know what to do with all of that food, these are good problems for Myanmar to have to solve. Right now, we have too many bad problems to solve. Then, I will show you the next things we can do. Plant vegetables anywhere and everywhere, too. Think about people who have negative things to say about these types of ideas; in some cases, they point out good problems to have, but they do not realize that these are good problems. How are we going to pick all of these fruits? That is a good problem to have. A bad problem would be not having any fruit to pick. "You want us to grow all of these seeds; where are we going to plant all of these trees?" Having trees that we grew so we could try and figure out where to plant them is a good problem. Having all kinds of land all over Myanmar with no seeds to plant is a bad problem, which is the current situation. 

Even during the writing of this document, I was growing fruit trees from seeds of the fruit I ate in Thailand, and I had no clue where I would plant them. I do not own any land in Thailand. Luckily, I was able to work with landowners who found places for these fruit trees. Think about cycles that are stuck in a loop. "I do not own land, so I will not grow seeds into trees. I do not look for land because I have no trees to plant." That cycle becomes a loop of no land, no trees, and no trees, no land. Nothing is planted, nothing grows, nothing new grows, and that system remains locked in a cycle with no productivity. There are too many of those types of cycles in Myanmar. I will not grow because no one will buy. No one will buy because no one grows new things to buy. I do not make things because I do not have the raw materials to make things, and I do not make the raw materials to make things because no one makes anything. Think about people in poverty. "I do not invest money because I do not have money to invest. I do not have money because I do not invest." "I do not make Myanmar better because the problems are too large. The problems are large because each person does not try to solve them." "There is too much garbage, so I will not clean any garbage. Because I do not clean garbage, there is so much garbage." 

Also, keep in mind that part of getting out of poverty in personal finance is offsetting your expenditures by doing things like eating out less and even growing your own food. By growing our own food, we have more money to purchase other items and things. In growing food for everyone, we are doing the same concept, but on a national level and on a larger scale for all Burmese. However, the concepts still apply. Having free food and using agriculture to grow those fruits and vegetables for Burmese to eat will help end malnutrition, and this will also help alleviate poverty. The less people spend on food, the more money they will have to buy other things. Higher-quality things. That concept is just as true for individual and personal finance, as that concept will be for the entire community and even the country. 

The great thing about Myanmar is that the climate is humid, and the temperature usually stays around the same warm temperature all year round. Fruit trees grow in Myanmar naturally and easily with little to no effort. That means that once a tree gets to a certain age, little to no effort is needed from us. The natural climate and rain will grow these trees. Organize into groups and find locations to plant trees and vegetables. Educate other Burmese on how they can help. Work with local markets and vendors about getting seeds. Many times, restaurants may serve mango and toss the seeds. Teach them how to germinate the mango seeds, and then we can pick them up and plant them somewhere. There is so much land all over Myanmar that can be used to grow fruit trees. 

If you do not live in the city, plant trees and vegetables around you. Plant them in your backyard, front yard, and anywhere you can. Teach your neighbors how to grow these trees. There was so much land that people owned in all of these areas around Yangon, and not that many were growing fruits. If a person owns a farm that is one mile wide, then they have a huge, one-mile-wide farm. In a residential area with a bunch of people who own small pieces of land, having a farm is not practical. Unless you plan to buy every piece of land, take down the houses, and plant all kinds of plants and trees, starting a farm at that location is not practical. However, if every house in that one mile grows durian, then the entire one-mile-wide neighborhood can become a huge durian farm. Also, since durian trees can get large, they need space. In fact, the space between each house is just about the amount of space needed for each durian tree anyway.  

We can work together to grow durian for schoolchildren and people in poverty. If every house is growing durian, then we have distributed the labor to each house. On a farm, you need to hire workers to work the whole land. In our example, every person helps grow their durian tree, and each does a little bit of work. After the durian tree is a certain size, there really is not much work to do besides harvest and maybe the occasional pruning. By making a higher standard of living our purpose and responsibility, so we can give people in poverty and malnutrition not just food but delicious food and even the most delicious food.  
 

If increasing nutrition is our only purpose, then instead of throwing away lime peels, we can give them to people in poverty to eat. That is not right because we can do a lot better. We want to help end malnutrition, and we want all Burmese to live better lives. Ending malnutrition is about increasing the lifespan of all Burmese and helping them to live better lives. We can give the orphan the cheapest leftover rice to eat, or we can give the orphan the best freshly cooked rice to eat. If the poorest person in Myanmar is eating the best rice, then we have made Myanmar a much better place for all Burmese.

As for the orphans of Myanmar, we will all pledge to them a truth that all children will be adopted by Myanmar. For any child that has lost their parents, Myanmar will be their mother and their father. We will adopt all of Myanmar's children. For everyone of them will be loved, and not a single one will be forgotten or abandoned. That is one of the many pledges that we will make with many more to come. That, as simply as we will end poverty, we will end the idea of orphans. 

I need your help. Start forming groups to grow fruits and vegetables. Identify places to grow fruits and vegetables. Find locations that have fruits and vegetables that people are not picking. Find locations to distribute those fruits and vegetables. Get everyone involved with growing fruits and vegetables, saving seeds, germinating seeds, giving seeds, starting their own small nurseries, and working with every location we can to share trees. If one location has 10 types of fruit trees and another location has a different 10, then we need to trade 10 and 10, so that each place will have 20 trees in the future. My website has pages https://agriculture101.godaddysites.com/names-a-cl - https://agriculture101.godaddysites.com/names-cm-ld - https://agriculture101.godaddysites.com/names-le-rd - https://agriculture101.godaddysites.com/names-re-z-1 . Those webpages provide an extensive list of the fruits and vegetables found in Myanmar and Thailand. Someday, I hope to extend that list to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, and so on. 

My recommendation to anyone in any of those countries is to make their own list and compare their list to my list. We have Burmese people all over, they can help make and gather the list for each country too. I have translations to help Burmese people identify the names easier. If you are along the Myanmar and Thailand border, think about how we can help each other. Thailand has more money and better infrastructure, and Myanmar may have more available land. Maybe Thai people who sell more mangoes can give Burmese more mangoes to plant, and later on, Burmese will have more mangoes to sell to Thailand. Since Myanmar is growing a lot more mangoes, the price drops, and now Thailand gets cheaper mangoes. This is how we must think. We can combine our efforts together, solve problems together, and solve each other’s problems.  

Also, my website has https://agriculture101.godaddysites.com/nutritional-information . That is the nutritional information on all of the fruits and vegetables I could find on the USDA website. For people out in different villages, they can use that information to identify how many types of fruits and vegetables they have in comparison to my list. They can find out the nutritional values, and identify any deficiencies. For example, if one village goes through and identifies all of the fruits and vegetables in their village, gathers the nutritional data from my website, then they may find that they lack vitamin A. At the bottom of the nutritional information page, I give my own nutritional assessment as an example. If so, they can go back to my nutrition page, find the fruits and vegetables with the most vitamin A, and grow those in their village. 

The great news is that my list is composed of fruits and vegetables found in Myanmar and Thailand, which means that those fruits and vegetables will most likely grow in their village. That will also save them the trouble of trying to figure out what grow zone they are in, which fruits and vegetables grow in their zone, and how to get those seeds. We can assume, for the most part, that everything on my list may be grown everywhere in Myanmar, Thailand, SEA (Southeast Asia), and tropical and humid locations.
 

There are some places that are at a higher elevation that experience colder weather, but these are more exceptions. I would still test and try growing various plants and trees. We may find that some fruits are not growing in certain areas because people do not know how to grow them in that area, but certain techniques may allow that fruit to grow there. For example, if a tree does not do too well in colder, higher elevations, then keeping a smaller dwarfed tree that is only allowed to stay 20–30 feet tall and in full sunlight might work, as opposed to a full tree that withers and does not grow. Some trees may not like the total amount of rainfall, but maybe we can grow this fruit tree in between other taller trees that provide shade and keep that fruit tree small while the other trees are kept large and keep the smaller tree under the larger tree’s shade. 

For the overall concept of economic development in an area, here are some of the concepts: By helping put free food in people's hands, especially those who are in the low-income bracket, we are boosting the economy to higher levels. If people spend less money on food, they will have more money to spend on more expensive items. Some of the major expenses for people are lodging (whether that is rent or mortgage), food (people eat three times a day every day), and then the rest is like clothes, entertainment, furnishings, cookware, and daily living expenses. If we start to give people free food, then they can spend that money on other things like lodging, clothes, entertainment, furnishings, cookware, and other things. We shift the expenditures from one place to another. As for the vendors selling food, we have infused that market with new products. They will be even better than before. More money and products that are going through the local economy is better for everyone, and maybe that extra money even stimulates other businesses to come to that location.  

More businesses help bring in more people. People know that if they rent in this area that we have, they get access to free organic fruits. That may even bring in people from all around the world who want to rent and stay in these locations. The money that these people spend on rent and give to the local economy far outweighs the cost of giving out fruits and vegetables. They too will have more money, live healthier, and spend in the local economy at higher levels, like renting motorbikes, going out to eat, entertainment, better quality food, and upgrade to a nicer apartment or home. Reducing spending or offsetting expenditure is a common strategy in personal finance and helping people get out of poverty. This concept of using that idea on a community and larger scale is based on the same principles.  

If we grow our own vegetables economically, then we spend less money on food. If we spend less money, we have more money. If we have more money, then we can use that money to buy and spend on other things. Having free organic fruits for residents can also be considered an amenity. Amenities are provided by hotels to entice people to come, stay, and stay longer. Some hotels have swimming pools, massages, and restaurants. Some apartment buildings in the US have a heater, AC, indoor washer and dryer, swimming pools, microwave, fridge, garbage disposal, dishwasher, indoor parking garages, gyms, and other amenities included in their apartments. A community offering renters more amenities could possibly mean more renters and, actually, more income for that economy. That may allow places to be more competitive with other hotels that have far more capital individually.  

Also, as the economy grows, we are creating jobs. Even better, we are shaping a place where people want to visit, live, and come and love life that much more. Will this collapse the restaurant business? That is absolute nonsense. More money gives people the means to go out and eat. People eating at home because they cannot afford to go out and eat is actually more of the norm in many areas. How many times have you heard people say, "I don't want to go out to eat because it's too expensive" or "that restaurant costs too much!"  

I will tell you from personal experience that people who have more money eat out more. How many parents in the US tell their kids, "Why do you always eat out? We have all of this food at home!?". How many people say, "I'm tired tonight; can we just go out and eat?" "I don't want to cook; let's go out tonight." When families have more money, they want to do more things that they love to do. If they have free food at home, they will go out and spend money. They will go to restaurants instead of sitting in front of the stove waiting for food to cook or washing dishes after they are done eating. They would rather go out to a nice restaurant; each person will order what they want, sit with beautiful views, listen to great Burmese live bands, have some magnificent desserts and drinks, and do none of the cleaning and dishes.   

Also, the free fruits and vegetables will offset the costs of restaurants paying for ingredients while increasing their profits. Think about what a restaurant is, too. A restaurant is a place that provides a service (cooking the food) and a place that creates more complex products (mixing all of these ingredients together to create more complex foods). What if we continue thinking of restaurants like people? What if we take the restaurants that are making the least amount of money (a low-income restaurant) and slowly introduce free products to them first for their restaurant? Now, customers can come to their restaurant and get some free desserts, free mangoes, or a free lychee shake. That will help entice more customers, as well as give the restaurant more free products to help them.  

Here is coffee production in Thailand. [Thailand coffee] Many of the rubber tree farms I have seen in Thailand do not do agroforestry; although, some do. Agroforestry means growing all kinds of plants and trees together. Rubber trees can be grown with turmeric, ginger, cocoa, coffee, cinnamon, sugar palm, and candle nut. If places start to grow coffee locally, then they can begin to supply coffee shops in their area locally. That means that we can stir businesses for farmers, coffee harvesters, coffee processors, and roasters, and supply fresh coffee to coffee shops. We can create all kinds of jobs locally. 

Agroforestry even allows for the incorporation of animals with crops in a symbiotic relationship. For example, we can take a rubber tree farm, place chicken pens with movable fences in between fields of trees. The chickens will lay feces as fertilizers for the plants and trees. Also, chickens have a behavior of scratching the ground to look for insects and food which is free food provided by nature. By placing chickens pens between rubber trees and rotating the pens and fences, the chickens will scratch and reduce the weeds and growth, which in turn, reduces the labor of having to have someone keep cutting and removing weeds and plant growth. Think about having a rubber farm, have chickens in between the trees, fence off coffee trees within the chicken pens to protect the trees from the chickens, planting various flowers, having a bee hive that benefits from all of our flowers, and then selling some of those flowers, rubber, coffee, chickens, eggs, and honey in the local and foreign markets.   

Once we have systems making improvements all over Myanmar, these will be self-sustaining systems that we will pass down from generation to generation, each generation making things better than the previous. If we have a system in which we have an abundance of fruits and vegetables, we can give food to other countries. We can turn an entire country into a country that helps feed the world. An entire country that runs almost like a nonprofit. Of course, there is profit, but we can show the world how much we can help make everyone’s lives better. Not just Burmese. 

Imagine areas in Southeast Asia (SEA) that have experienced any natural disaster. We can help them rebuild and send them food. If we send grafted trees, we can literally help places in SEA have fruit to eat in 2-3 years and speed up their recovery process down to a few years. We can take areas all over SEA and immediately help them solve poverty and malnutrition in their area by giving them all of these fruits and vegetables to grow in their areas. Trust me when I say that the more we give, the more we will receive.  

We can build entire areas in Myanmar that are thriving with food. Imagine being able to go to places like Yangon and telling people in poverty that “life does not have to be this way. We have somewhere you can call home. You do not need to dig through the garbage, beg for money, or live a life any less deserving than anyone else. All we ask is that you come help us help others and help us save others.” All Burmese must hold their heads high and look to the stars and sky, not down to the bottom of garbage bins. Put Myanmar first like we put America First and Myanmar will take care of you the way you take care of Myanmar. If you take care of Myanmar with plans to protect and help Myanmar for hundreds of years, then Myanmar will take care of your children and children's children for hundreds of years. We must teach all Burmese to think in that way.

Imagine places like this all over Myanmar, where we can all travel and help each other in every village and every location. We can call all of Myanmar our home. We can identify villages in Myanmar and send them fruits and vegetables. We can set minimum standards for all areas of Myanmar. We can say that no matter where you go in Myanmar, at the very least, we have 50 different types of fruits and vegetables, and we will not accept any areas that have less. We, as Burmese, have decided that all Burmese lives matter. We will make Myanmar great again. Yes, Myanmar is great for many, but not for everyone. My systems are based on a continuous process of making the poorest in Myanmar live better and better lives and raising the bar every inch of the way. Any time we have a group or village fall below this level, these systems will identify them and rebuild or bring them back to our standard. 

What should be the minimum quality of life for any Burmese to live? Right now, if you were able to talk to the poorest person or poorest village in Myanmar, what life would you want them to live? If you could talk to the poorest children in Myanmar, do we have the conviction to tell them that we cannot do better? Right now, we have every right, responsibility, and power to decide the minimum quality of life a Burmese person should live and make that a reality. This next video is long, but the video is still only a glimpse into the world that is happening all around Myanmar. Our children should have every right to be able to grow up in a world and do all of these fun and amazing things as any other person. [people are awesome] 

Think about something like snow. Myanmar does not have snow; therefore, Myanmar does not have all of the things associated with snow. Myanmar does not have snowboarding, skiing, ski lifts, snowmobiles, feel snow on our faces, see a landscape full of snow, see how beautiful the snow-capped mountains glow on a full moon, gondolas through snow covered mountains, clothes for snow weather (clothes in not only one word, but a category of all kinds of things like gloves, beanies, shoes, boots, pants, shirts, and coats), ski and snowboard instructors, ski resorts, workers at ski resorts, make any equipment that has to do with snow, and give any Burmese what life is like experiencing snow (which is absolutely fun and amazing.) Something as simple as snow. That is the type of concept that Burmese people need to understand. One thing, or the lack of one thing, may seem trivial, but these foundational components can lead to the lack of many other things.  

Think about two scenarios. Scenario 1: A bunch of experts and people that can tell you why something can't and shouldn't be done. "Oh, you can't do that because of X, Y, and Z." In some places, these seem like experts. People who know so much. They even ridicule new people that come because the older ones say things like, "Oh, he's new; he doesn't know." "Oh, things are different around here. We can't do that here." “That won’t work because of this or that.” I am sure all of you have heard these types of comments. I have been in different situations and have seen different scenarios. In some places, there are a lot of these so-called "experts.". 

Scenario 2: A bunch of people figure out how they can do things. What happens to the people in scenario 1 who are placed with people in scenario 2? The scenario 2 people are trying to figure out how we can make things better. How can we accomplish goals? The scenario 1 people are a bunch of people who can tell you why things can't be better, why we can't change things, why we can't do things, why things should stay the same, and what goes wrong if we do this or that. As you continue to develop your team with people from scenario 1 and 2, the scenario 1 people become more and more irrelevant and, quite frankly, sort of not useful or helpful. The scenario 2 people start to learn and have all these ways in which things can be changed, improved, developed, and innovated, while the scenario 1 people still only know how to keep things the same.  

In a situation where things change and develop, the scenario 1 people are “experts” at systems that no longer exist anymore because the current systems are new and different. Do problems arise? Yeah, of course, but guess what? If you cultivate a group of scenario 2 people, even the new problems have solutions. Whereas the scenario 1 people just sit there and say, "I told you so," and do not help fix the problem, or worse yet, try and make things go back to how they were. Can you imagine if the Wright brothers were like, "We should have listened to all those people saying that flying is only for birds. Making a plane has too many problems!" These guys obviously fixed every problem they came across and fixed a lot of problems for the rest of us. They paved the way for fixing the path to the moon. What happened to all of the scenario 1 people in meetings? Some sit and say nothing at meetings after a while because the meetings are about trying to figure out how to make things happen. Who wants a productive meeting full of people who can't figure out how to make things better?

This is part of the beauty of capitalism that people do not always understand. Are there downsides to capitalism? Of course, but there are more great sides. One of the great sides is that competitive businesses help the consumer. Why should any economy that is selling lychee for 3,000 kyat per kilogram desire to create a system in which lychee jelly is sold for 3,500 kyat? In the system for selling lychee, we have farmers and people associated with farming, like fruit pickers, making 3,000 a kilogram. Why should farmers do the extra work when they can simply pick fruit and sell it? Why spend all the extra time and effort just to make 500 more kyat with another product?   

Here are some more common traits associated with that scenario: Low and unskilled labor is associated with farming lychee. All they need to do is learn how to pick lychee every season, then sell that lychee to the vendors or bring the fruit straight to markets and sell. The labor is low, their wage is low, the farmer gets to benefit, and the consumers get lychee for higher prices. In that scenario, the farmer makes most of the money but endures much of the cost. The economy in that area really does not do well. Maybe the farmer has enough sense to save money, buy more land, hire more workers, and repeat until the farm is a huge farm. 

Unfortunately, the farmer benefits more, while the others really do not benefit that much. Yes, the farmer creates jobs, but the farmer creates more low-paying jobs. Until finally, the farmer reaches a maximum. This maximum is when their own lychee has saturated the market until there is not much increase in profitability by adding more lychee trees to that area. In most cases, these places become stagnant. The farmer may start to grow other products to break that maximum, but the cycle of low-paying jobs continues with higher-priced lychee and other fruits. Another scenario is the farmer has so much lychee, that the farmer decides to export trucks and trucks of lychee to try and make money from other locations.
 

If we have the opportunity to saturate the market with lychee and ignore this maximum limit and let the price drop, then we will be giving low-cost lychee to the market. This is great for the consumer and people because they get cheaper lychee and have more money to use in other areas. This is not that great for the farmer. Because of this, many times farmers never go beyond. What happens beyond? If we continue to grow lots of lychee, drop the price, create systems that allow people to have cheaper lychee, and stimulate new products based on lychee, then we can create more products and process lychee. Part of the byproduct of that system is that, by processing lychee, in many cases, processed lychee also lasts longer.  

Normally, lychee may last a week or two, but processed lychee can last for months or even years. Think of lychee jam and preserves. These can last for years. If lychee only lasts for a week or two, we can only ship to distances reachable in a week or two, but we still have to sell the lychee. No one is going to want to buy lychee delivered from us that only lasts a day because we took a week to drive and deliver that lychee. Another benefit of more products is that we are allowing and stimulating a system in which new jobs are developing. New higher and more diverse skilled jobs. Think about tea. Tea leaves are dried and processed, and tea leaves have a shelf life of years and years. Because tea leaves can last so long and are made abundantly, tea is sold practically everywhere in the world. Even in the poorest of villages, these places have tea. This is part of the power of processing a raw ingredient, reducing the price to be affordable, and increasing its durability. Tea for everyone.  

Also, we are encouraging more entrepreneurs to create new businesses. Now that we have all of these products that people are making, the demand for lychee goes up. If demand increases, the price increases, and the farmers make more money. This helps encourage other farmers to sell lychee, makes more land profitable, and helps bring the price back down. This type of system will enter a new equilibrium, and an economy that is far greater than the previous economy of one farmer and a bunch of low-skilled workers. Does the farmer lose money or go back to a system in which he makes little to no money? The reality is that the farmer ends up making more money than he ever did. His market is not just a market in which people buy raw lychee.  

I mean, honestly, who is eating that much lychee? The farmer will only sell so much lychee until the farmer has to drop the price of lychee. If they drop the price of lychee, they may sell a little bit more. Then, the price will be too low to make the extra land, labor, and effort worth the price, and people will not want to buy that much more lychee. However, in our new market, there are so many new products that come from our farmers raw lychee products that the farmer is making money selling everything he can grow because people are buying and processing everything the farmer grows, and they are taking care of the processing and shipping for the farmer. Since the farmer is selling lychee, the farmer makes money on all of the products sold that are made with lychee.  

If a person buys lychee jam, lychee cake, lychee jelly, or lychee soda, the farmer wins because he makes money through every product, the local economy wins because all of these jobs are created, and the consumer wins because they have all of these great new, cheaper products. In the US, farmers end up becoming more efficient with their land and finding ways to grow more products because the demand is so high. Now, we have vertical farms where companies have found ways to grow all kinds of vegetables year-round. That is where the beauty of capitalism comes into these economies.   

There was a store near me that sold pots and soil for plants. Normally, their “business model” focuses on selling pots, soil, and a few other items associated with plants, like fertilizer and some tools. Think of this in terms of raw materials. A pot and soil are raw materials (granted, the soil is a little more complex than raw because of the coconut coir, organic matter, and other materials). If we think of these things as raw materials, we can actually use them to make more complex things. Imagine if they decided to start growing plants, vegetables, and fruit trees. If someone buys the plant or tree, that same shop has now sold soil and a pot too. They combined the pot and soil and added a plant to make a more complex product. If you have one type of pot and one type of soil, but you grow 100 types of flowers, then you have 100 more products to sell besides the pot and soil. Now that you have sold people all kinds of plants, vegetables, and trees, do you think these people are more likely to buy fertilizer and tools later? Luckily, the store was selling a few plants, but this is nowhere near the overall capacity and growth that the store is capable of reaching. 

If you have no plants, trees, or vegetables, why do you need soil, tools, and fertilizer? Creating more complex products stirs a lot of businesses and products well beyond the scope of the original product, if done correctly. Now that we have a system of people with all sorts of plants, vegetables, and trees, we can now have more diversity of fertilizers, tools, and other products of varying usage and quality. Which business model is better? Which system is better? Based on economies of scale, that same store, if successful, is selling significantly more products and may be able to buy things in bulk. If they buy things in bulk, then the price per item reduces. If they pass on the cost savings to their customers, then the prices of things become cheaper, and the owner still makes more money, further helping the people and economy. That is part of the reason why larger companies dominate the business landscape. For them to add more customers to their business model, the cost is marginal, but the profit margins are huge. These large companies buy so many products in bulk, and their expenditure is so low that taking on more customers and expanding is far more beneficial and cost-effective than for smaller businesses.  

Think about another scenario in which we do not bring in new products. There are two ideas in the computer world: horizontal scaling and vertical scaling. Horizontal scaling is when we scale things by cloning them. For example, we have a Burmese restaurant, so another person opens another Burmese restaurant. This is horizontal scaling, and the more people that open Burmese restaurants, the larger that system gets, but that system does not really grow in complexity and diversity. In the computer world, horizontal scaling is increasing the number of computers. We buy more and more of the same computers. Vertical scaling is taking something and improving or increasing the different components of that thing. In computers, vertical scaling is increasing the computer's components so that the computer is faster, has increased processing power, and has more memory. In terms of restaurants, there can be simplicity and complexity. Simplicity would be vertical scaling by getting a better stove, a bigger oven, a larger refrigerator, higher-quality products and ingredients, and better cookware.  

We can do better by scaling vertical with complexity. Complexity would be a Burmese restaurant and hotel like a bed and breakfast. Our Burmese restaurant expanded to a hotel, and allowed people to sleep there. Another example of how to grow our Burmese restaurant in complexity would be to offer catering, delivery services, online ordering and payment, cooking classes, canning food, canning ingredients, increasing products and specialized foods, creating new products not found in other Burmese restaurants, creating fusion dishes of Burmese foods with other foods, adding rewards programs and points, and live music. Here is one restaurant in the US. [Photos] Look at the types of dishes. Here is another restaurant. [Photos] Look at the diversity of products and the level of fresh, healthy products that are integrated into their foods. Of course, not all of the items are healthy, but the quality is high in all of the products. 

However, in terms of locations, vertically scaling would be to bring in businesses and jobs that were more than restaurants, hotel workers, construction workers, massage therapists, merchants, rubber farmers, rice farmers, and fishermen. Here is where the real difference appears. This is one list of the top 100-paying jobs in the US. [Top 100 Jobs] In some places in Myanmar, we may see these occupations in the larger cities. That is more true in Thailand. However, in most of Myanmar, maybe someone went and got a degree, started their own business back at home, or maybe a couple people got together and started a business, but the overall types of jobs like those do not exist in most of Myanmar. That is why in Myanmar and SEA (Southeast Asia) the situation is imperative that we stimulate the economy on a higher level. By stimulating the economy, we can bring in the jobs that are higher in complexity and skill. We can really vertically scale our areas to new vertical heights of complexity. 

Those types of systems work with each other as well. The more complex an area and community get, the better everything gets for everyone. Does this mean that all of the US has those jobs at every location? Not at all. There are many places in the US that do not have all or many of those occupations, but that is changing. AI, automation, and machine learning are changing the world. We may not think in terms of farming, but all of those technologies have entered American farms. Those technologies will enter every aspect of American lives, and they will bring all of these new jobs with them. Yes, AI, machine learning, and automation will displace jobs, but they will stir jobs by empowering people to be able to use those technologies and incorporate them back into their fields of expertise. Burmese farmers remain the same in many aspects, but American farmers are becoming data analysts and farmers. 

Think about merchants. Merchants are people who sell things. For the most part, we consider different merchants to be of varying levels. A person who sells an 8K HDTV requires more knowledge than someone who sells vegetables. However, if we really analyze the occupation, the job is that of a merchant. Places grow in “complexity” due to the products growing more complex. A person who previously sold vegetables now sells high-end memory foam mattresses. This is great, but the job has not actually increased that drastically relative to other complex occupations. Yangon seems to be more complex because of the higher-end products that Yangon sells, but most of Myanmar lacks complexity. That is only a part of the reason why Yangon and San Francisco are different. Yangon, in many ways, may seem similar to San Francisco but is not really as close as we would like to think, at least in terms of occupations, companies, buildings, stores, complexity, materials, sophistication, and many other ways. Here is a video of one neighborhood in San Francisco. That video did not even go into the downtown financial district in San Francisco, which has high-rises. Tell me which part of Yangon looks like San Francisco. 

Does that mean Yangon has none of those occupations? Of course, Myanmar does have these occupations. Especially, in areas that are funded by the government like the medical field. The banking sector has jobs. Yangon has companies that have started businesses in Yangon. The question is, how many (Yangon, Myanmar had almost 300 job openings on jobnet.com by searching “IT,” as opposed to almost 5,000 job results in San Francisco, United States), how sophisticated are the technologies that they are using, how large is their company and client base, and many other metrics. Those types of concepts are what we need to educate people about. Think of this in terms of farming. Yes, America has farmers, but are American farmers and Burmese farmers the same? Here is a glimpse into American farming of the future, happening now. [Vertical farming] [Autonomous equipment] Also, keep in mind that all over the US, there are those occupations. 

Yes, we can be an IT systems engineer in Yangon working with a company that has 100 computers. However, this is vastly different than being an IT systems engineer in San Francisco working with over 8,000 computer, mobile phone, laptop, and tablet devices. Amazon has warehouses with hundreds of wireless routers and hundreds of devices. Those are warehouses that receive packages, store packages, and ship packages. We are comparing the technology of an American warehouse versus the technology of a Burmese company. How many companies in Yangon have hundreds of wireless routers and hundreds of devices in their buildings? 

Agriculture, production, malnutrition, and poverty are a few of the concepts I have spoken about, but many of those ideas are basic foundational level concepts. If we cannot unite together to start building these foundation systems, when do we think that Myanmar will grow to the complexity of other developed countries? Once again, this is not to diminish Myanmar’s many accomplishments. That is to make comparisons, so that we understand things relatively and in relation to other things. If Burmese are waiting for money and do not start the systems I am talking about, then Burmese are waiting for money to rain down from the sky someday. There is a Chinese proverb that says, “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the next best time to plant a tree is today.” The best time to start all of these foundational systems was 20 years ago, the next best time to start these systems is today. 

We must dream big so that others around us and our children can dream even bigger. If you think you can do it, then maybe you have not thought big enough. The ideas on the Agriculture101 website always put me in a state of doubt. Often times, I wonder if these things are even possible. Sometimes, I want to give up. Then, I try and remember the idea that I may not be able to do something, may not be able to accomplish something, the roadblocks may seem to never end, and people seem to have negative things to say like "this or that cannot be done" and "that is not possible"... Yet. Try that. Anytime you think something cannot be done, put a "yet" at the end of the sentence. I cannot help people in poverty yet. I cannot help people living with malnutrition yet. I cannot gather all the fruits and vegetables in Laos and Cambodia yet. Then we see that people who said things were impossible were people who had not seen what was possible.   

People who say this or that cannot be done do so because they have never done those things or have seen others do them. Does that make that thing impossible? If we have never landed on the moon or seen anyone land on the moon, would we be correct in saying that landing on the moon is impossible? Thankfully, America landed on the moon and showed the world what was possible. Their limitation is not your limitation. Their limitation is their limitation. Do not try, and only help a village. Think about helping an entire country. Do not think about only helping to clean your street; think about how we can clean an entire country and keep the country clean. Do not only think about helping some orphans, but also how we can help every orphan.  

People all over the world right now are thinking about how to solve the world's problems. Be one of these people. We live in an age with the sharing of information and technology, where when we solve one problem, we solve that same problem for the entire world. Every time I publish information on the agriculture101 website, I give this information to the entire world. Think about scaling up the things that you do. If you have a great idea, scale that idea to the rest of the world. Think big!

Think about ideas. If there is a room with a thousand people and one person comes up with ideas for everyone in the room, then we only have ideas from one person. If we have a room full of a thousand highly trained people with leaders that have trained those thousand and listen to those thousand, then we have a room full of thousands of ideas. That is why some militaries are the best because they train their people to be the best. That is also why some corporations like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Tesla dominate and lead the entire landscape of US businesses with creative and innovative ideas and lead many industries worldwide. Other corporations around the world have followed in this way and have transitioned toward better-trained people, whether this be employees, volunteers, teachers, hotel staff, farmers, or government employees. Every single industry has benefited from this shift. We want Myanmar to be the land of billions of ideas.  

We must be able to disagree and commit to our views and opinions. In many ways, the easiest way is to agree. "I agree that the reason things are the way they are is because we cannot change them. The way things are the way they are is normal." The problem with “normal” is that this idea leads to "acceptable." That is wrong. We must have the courage to disagree when things are not right. The children of the world living in poverty is not right. Yes, this may be normal for that area, but that does not make that any more correct. People living in malnutrition and poor living conditions is not right. People living in grass and bamboo huts is not right. Not in this day and age when we have so much. The more people agree with something, agreeing does not make the wrong things right, no matter how many agree. Even countries can be wrong at times.  

Part of the success of democracy is disagreement. If we think about making the best judgments and decisions, we must have all of the information and data. The more information and data we have, the more we become experts in any field. After we have received information and data, we must weigh the pros (good) and cons (bad) of various perspectives. We can think of our side or perspective as the pros, and the person disagreeing with us as the cons. By having our pros and their cons, can we make far better decisions. That is part of the reason why democracy is far superior to authoritarian systems. Authoritarian systems in many cases take a single-point perspective. Yes, they may think they are taking multiple perspectives by viewing different information and data, but having the same information and coming to different conclusions than others is far different than having the same information and coming to the same conclusions as others. In democratic systems, people in many cases will come to different conclusions. In authoritarian systems, people in many cases will come to the same conclusions or be coerced into the same conclusions. 

In the US, we had a prohibition that made alcohol illegal. Now, all over the US, Americans have started their own breweries because of their ability to produce their own beers and alcohol. Think about how many jobs have been created. I can personally tell you that once that trend grew in the US, we created so many new types of beers that the scale was enormous. [100 Craft beers] This is the power of the people. A room with one person or one group will have a limited number of ideas. In the US, we mainly had 20 beer varieties because we had a few large beer corporations that dominated the beer market and decided which beers to make, but out of those 20, 5-10 were the dominant beers. Now, look at that previous list of beers that people are choosing to make on their own. We have an America with ”thousands of beers” based on thousands of ideas. If Myanmar wants to sell beer on the global market, that list is what they are competing against.

I use alcohol as an example, but I have come across people that talk about alcohol leading to alcoholism. If there is no alcohol, there is no alcoholism. That type of idea, although sounding rational, may not be so good when compared with different scenarios. If we use that same logic, does the idea of banning all cars because cars have led to car accidents sound logical? Does the idea sound good that banning swimming pools from houses or communities because swimming pools have caused drowning? Does banning medicine sound like a good idea because having medicine can lead to overdoses? Although, in the US and many countries, we do ban lots of drugs because of their potential for misuse, damages to the person, and addiction. Also, those banned drugs have more to do with the higher rate of health issues and mortality than alcohol.The main concepts we must focus on is not the alcohol, but the concept of increasing production and products. I use alcohol as an example.

I want to mention something to be clear. I make comparisons to the US because I was raised in the US. I do make commentary about how areas in Myanmar and Thailand are lacking things, but does that mean that all of the US has those things everywhere? Not at all. The things that I say here may be how things are changing in the US. The future is happening now. When I talk about the diversity of passion fruit out there, does this mean that in the US we have access to all of the different types of passion fruit to eat? No. But this is changing as more and more Americans raise production in their areas and start to create things, grow things, and make things. Here are videos from an Asian American dragon fruit farmer. [videos] He has dragon fruit varieties such as "nectar sunrise," "bubblegum," "asunta," "pixie sky," "wild berry skittles," "ohana express," "starburst," "sakura," "katayi," and "sour patch watermelon" dragon fruit to name a few. This video showcases 36 varieties of dragon fruits. [video] Yes, even American grocery stores do not have that much variety of dragon fruits (yet), but this is changing now with more people like Richard from the video changing the world. Think about all of the new products that can be created from those dragon fruit varieties. Here is a current list of fruits and vegetables found in one area of America. [USA list Excel]

That is not new. In fact, Americans have shifted in so many ways to being entrepreneurs. Myanmar and Thailand can either live in the same future as these developed countries, or wait until these trends appear more abundantly in their locations. I teach these things so that all over Myanmar, Thailand, and the rest of Southeast Asia do what these developed countries are doing now. 

Think about craft beers. I can easily show you a list of the 100 different craft beers, and no one can argue the diversity. If I talk about the diversity of passion fruit and dragon fruit and people talk about how the US does not have these passion fruit cultivars, then they are living in a world where we currently do not have 100 craft beers yet and telling you that "lots of passion fruit and dragon fruit? That's impossible. No one has that many passion fruits. They barely sell one variety of passion fruit and dragon fruit in stores now in the US." Their limitation is their limitation, not your limitation. Their lack of vision is not your lack of vision. All kinds of fruit cultivars are being grown by small growers, and like craft breweries, small farmers are becoming normal in America. Think big! Understand how these small, simple concepts will scale into larger systems. This is one of the many things I try to teach over and over and over again. Simplicity leads to complexity and scaling. In the US, we are seeing "farmer markets" and people selling online with far more diverse and exotic products. Yes, many produce markets may not have that much diversity, but this is changing.  

When these technologies and products enter more US locations, Myanmar and Thailand can join in that development because these locations are mirroring those technologies and trends. If we can get Myanmar and Thailand to grow far more raw products and make these resources more readily available, then as the culture and trend shift toward production, we can easily meet those demands. My ideas are not always about now. My ideas are looking years and decades ahead. Also, my ideas are not always so apparent as to their current benefits, but they link to other systems and create a larger system that will continuously grow and develop. These are some of the things that I say only to give you a glimpse into that future, but that future depends on all of you.

As for imports, when will these villagers in Myanmar get those craft beers? The likelihood that they will be able to make their own beers is far more practical and viable than these villagers being able to import and buy those beers. We can make this a reality. Normally, beer is made using a base ingredient, hops, and yeast. However, alcohol can be made using all kinds of base ingredients and yeast. A few of those base ingredients are wheat to make beer, barley to make beer, grapes to make wine (wine can be processed further into cognac), sugarcane to make rum, plums to make wine, agave plant to make tequila, potatoes to make vodka, honey to make mead, rice to make soju, sake, and rice wine, palm sugar to make wine, and corn to make whiskey. I talk about making the best rice wine in Myanmar, but the truth is that Myanmar has honey, grapes, corn, sugar cane, palm sugar, and potatoes to make other drinks too. Another benefit to alcohol is that alcohol can easily last for over decades. Alcohol is used in the example, but this applies to all of these products all over the world. The sheer number of varieties that can be achieved is astounding. We must strive to create and produce at levels never seen before in every category.

Part of the key to the successful production of anything such as alcohol is understanding the processes. Alcohol is made through the process of yeast converting sugar to alcohol. In the cases of potatoes and rice, there is very little sugar. However, potatoes and rice have a lot of starch. Starch can be converted to sugar, and then those sugars can be converted to alcohol. In the cases of grapes, sugarcane, and honey, all of those already contain high levels of sugar, so turning that sugar into alcohol is ”one less” step. This is another example of the importance of raw ingredients. Think about all of the different types of craft beers. That same concept of multiple variations applies to the enormous number of vodkas, cognacs, wines, rums, mead, and whiskies that can be created. This is only alcohol. I use alcohol as an example, but the idea is that we can grow a numerous amount of things in many different categories. There is an entire world of new products in almost every category in the US.  

If you think that we are having difficulty helping people get out of poverty, then think about how hard it must be for them to get out of poverty. We have the resources that they may not. Think about a hole in the ground. If you had a hard time climbing out, did you just walk away, or did you look back and help others out too? Set goals. Even little ones, to make this world better. 

What is the greater harm in a single-point management style? People who do not cultivate their ability to solve problems. The brain needs to be trained like any other muscle. The way in which we train our brain is through problem solving. If we always listen to what we are told and are micromanaged, then we do not train our brains to find solutions. That is why companies that focused on micromanagement failed to really innovate, as opposed to companies that trained and harnessed their employees’ innovative ideas and improved at every level possible. 

I have given solutions, but we need to understand the underlying problem. Poverty is a lack of resources. Money is a resource. Places that lack money lack almost everything that money can buy. One problem that is not always understood is that money drives innovation, new products, and, more importantly, production. Places that do not really have that much money or money circulating through their economy stop producing or never produce at all. Why should I make a bunch of bamboo chairs if no one is going to buy bamboo chairs and no one has money to buy bamboo chairs? Why should I grow all of this fruit if no one is going to buy the fruits?   

Those are logical conclusions, but the production stops or does not even start. Then we have a cycle in which there is no production, there is no innovation and higher-level production, and there is no one to buy these goods. However, we did not always have money. Money is actually a fairly new concept. For much of human history, we traded. (Do not get me wrong, money has been around since Egypt and the pharaohs and beyond, but this still pales in comparison to human history. Also, even during times of money, people are still trading.) That is why creating production in these areas is so crucial. If there is one area in Myanmar that has the best wine, another that has the best rice, another that has the best mangoes, another that has the best mushrooms, and places all over that have the best processed and refined forms of all these raw materials, then they can barter with each other. 

Think about the poorest places in Myanmar trading the best wine with another area that has the best durian. Now, both places have the best wine and durian. Think about these areas trading with a place that has all kinds of the best mushrooms. Now, those areas have the best wine, mushrooms, and durian. If we go to another area and start to produce the best cheeses of all kinds of varieties, now we have the best products of wines, cheeses, mushrooms, and durians. We have raised the standard of living tremendously, reduced malnutrition, reduced poverty, increased production dramatically, created the best items that we can trade and give each other, created the best raw ingredients to create higher-quality products, and stimulated an economy well beyond the previous means by incomparable lengths and magnitudes. 

Although I talk about having the best of certain plants, trees, fruits and vegetables, we must understand that diversity with genetic variety in many cases is beneficial. In the cases of natural disasters, droughts, diseases, and severe weather, some varieties of plants and trees are better suited for certain extremes and have higher resilience and tolerances. Yes, we should have the best plants and trees, but we must take into consideration our own risk and diversification of our own agricultural portfolio, the same as we would our own stock portfolio.

Obviously, places specializing in certain products is not a new concept. Places all over the world are well known for certain things. Champagne is a place in France known for making that sparkling wine. Wagyu and Kobe are meat from cows that come from places in Japan. Parmesan cheese comes from a place in Italy. Because those places manufactured products, refined those products into higher-quality products, were able to sell these products all over the world, and are renown for their high quality. Here is a bonus video about Matcha that is a well known product from Japan.

In our new economy, if any tourist or new person comes, they are coming into an area that has the best of all of those products to buy. If a trader comes into that area, they may be willing to purchase those products and handle the transportation logistics to sell those products in other areas. There are a countless number of benefits to these types of systems. Then, if done correctly and managed correctly, the money that does come into that area can be managed locally and used to invest in increasing the economy, infrastructure, and living standard even more. Before, we had a cycle that spiraled down to nothing, decreased, or had a minimal baseline and standard. Now, our new system is in a cycle of increase, growth, and raises the bar each year. 

Because of those types of systems, Americans get an enormous amount of great options in products at a low (relative) cost. Yes, some products can be a lot more expensive, but our economy has products for all levels, from low-income to rich. People with low incomes can get great-tasting wine for cheap, but the rich can get even better and the best-tasting wine for more expensive prices. In the previous scenario of the farmer and low-wage workers, we may see an import of wine, but usually at higher prices that the local economy usually does not consume. 

For example, the wage of an employee in Myanmar may be such that a bottle of wine can cost a few days wages. In the US, a good bottle of wine can cost an hour’s worth of wages. For people in further villages, wine is not even a consideration. Their wage is too low, and the transportation cost to get wine there is not worth the investment. Also, because of the range of products, people can save money by buying cheaper items in one area (while living a higher quality life and living standard because the cheapest quality is still of higher quality) and splurge in other areas. Part of my vision is to give people in poverty access to the highest quality items while being part of an economy that strives through profitability to encourage and stimulate growth. Those systems will hopefully become self-sustaining in so many different ways.  

Maybe we can all come together to create these types of systems where everyone wins, instead of systems where only a few people win. That type of concept will help break the ongoing cycles of poverty in these areas and help them thrive and get access to the best-quality products by stimulating growth and the creation of those products. Here is what a wine and beer store in the US looks like: Total Wine. [video] Here is a typical home improvement store called Home Depot. [video] If that store has over 10,000 products, and your store has 1,000 products, and a poor village has 10 tools to sell, then your store is closer to the poorest village store than the one in the US store. That comparison is made through relative poverty. Not to say that these people live in absolute poverty, but in comparison to the amount of wealth and advancements that the US has made, the difference is a bit huge. The US and many other countries have come a long way. When I say that we can do better, I mean really, we have a lot of things we can do besides selling raw products. 

Here is a store called Costco that sells all kinds of things. [video] Here is a furniture store called Ikea. [video] Almost everything inside Ikea stores are for sale, and the stores are designed in a way to give you an idea of how these products would look inside your home. Here is a sports and outdoor store called REI. [video] (That video was only on the first floor.) Here is an electronic store called BestBuy. [video] Do we still get raw products in the US? Of course. I can still buy avocados, mangoes, pineapples, blueberries, and strawberries. However, I can buy a lot more than that. Here is a grocery store. [video] Here is the thing: These are not one store in Bangkok or one store in Yangon. Some of these stores are in almost every neighborhood all over the US, and there are many other stores besides the few I have shown. That is why I am saying to make more raw products. Get all kinds of raw products, and start processing them into more complex products. 

To be correct, I am not advocating processed foods in the sense that there are a lot of foods in the US that are unhealthy. Yes, there are way more options in the US, but there are also more unhealthy options. Part of the reason is that some processed foods have many vitamins and nutrients removed from the raw products due to the processing methods and have chemicals added to the products for various reasons, such as coloring, flavor, preservatives, and even adding sugars and other sweeteners. Things like orange juice (due to processing) lose their natural color and nutrients, so orange juice has sugar and coloring added to make the juice orange and sweet again. Because of this, we need to be mindful of the ways in which we process raw foods so that we retain a high level of nutrients and vitamins while increasing the number of new products. 

As much as I love the idea of children having durian crepe cake, we must understand moderation. We want to raise people’s standard of living and let them experience great new products, but we also want to keep longevity and health in mind. The great news is that we can have a lot of healthy options, but I will not lie in saying that the occasional tawny port with truffle brie (cheese) and crackers is a delicious vice that really is not so bad now and again. Alcohol and cheese are unhealthy, if over consumed. Otherwise, wine and cheese are actually quite healthy) In the case of Pesto sauce, the ingredients are fresh basil, garlic, pine nuts, extra-virgin olive oil, and Parmesan cheese, all of which are extremely healthy foods that combine together to make pesto sauce, which is very healthy. 

I want to make sure that we understand that agriculture is a major component but only a part of the overall things needed to solve poverty. To be honest, think about growing and grafting trees. If I plant fruit tree seeds right now, in 1-2 years I will have root stocks for grafting. Once I graft those trees, then we need about another 2–3 years for the grafted trees to grow. How long do you think that will take to start growing, giving fruit trees away, and for these trees to bear fruit? All of the things above can be done to help people in poverty and to help feed children in schools, but these ideas need an enormous amount of time, motivation, and dedication.  

However, I really want to make my intentions clear that I am creating multiple systems all over that are designed to have us help each other. Raising chickens and giving chickens away is meant to create a system in which we give chickens to each other. Growing fruit trees and giving fruit trees away, and some day giving fruits from those trees to each other. Growing vegetables and giving each other vegetables to grow. Growing shrimp, clams, oysters, or fish, and giving each other fish and shrimp. Growing and making mealworms, vermicompost, worm castings, to give to each other. Growing mushrooms and giving each other the means to grow our own mushrooms. Constantly creating and producing things to give to each other, so that we can all benefit from each other and help each other. In many locations all over Myanmar, we all live in poverty together, yet we do not all come together to fight poverty together. These systems are meant to bring us together to fight these larger battles together, not fight each other together, and surely not fight these battles against poverty alone.

Does our systems have to only be related to food? I want people who make shirts to make shirts for others. I have been into people's homes all over that are in poverty. They lack everything. Can we not create an environment where people are producing so many things and giving things away? That is not difficult. The solution is really that simple. 

There is nothing against large companies, but why do they get to pick who they donate money to or not? Why can't we make businesses by boosting the economy with all of these new products that we make, and giving some of these products to people in poverty? Why can't we make the best wine and give some of that best wine to people in poverty? Why can't we make the best fruits and give some of those fruits to people in poverty and children? What about areas that do not have these large corporations? There was a saying, "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." [quote] Teach a community how to create a fish hatchery, and we will teach them how to feed their entire community in a self-sustaining way for generations.

Not only giving each other these things but also teaching each other how to grow and raise them. Right now, do you know how to make soap? We buy soap all of the time. Why should the soap company get our money? Why can't we make soap, teach each other how to make soap, we can all make soap, we can all make more soap, and we can all make more soap for people in poverty? Why should some company get our money and give none of that money to our schools? Do you know how to make cheese? Do you know how to make yogurt? Do you know how to make chocolate? Do you know how to make coconut milk? Do you know how to silk screen shirts? All of this information is easily accessible on places like YouTube. Not only do my systems try to help create excess in cheap, effective, efficient, and self-sustaining ways, but I am also teaching people to funnel that excess to people in poverty. Also, I am trying to stir the concept of production back into these economies. 

Agriculture is one system and, at the same time, an example. We can create all sorts of systems. All sorts!!! These are a few of the systems I talk about, but there are an endless number of things we can design. Even right now, I am growing fruits and vegetables. That is only a small part of what I am doing. I am also making this website to show and teach people well beyond the fruits and vegetables I can grow. If you create all sorts of systems for your community, you will easily, easily, easily make things better for people. If you teach others, they too will do the same. I will be honest in saying that these concepts are so simple that I have no clue why we aren't doing more.   

Not to diminish Myanmar’s accomplishments, as Myanmar has made a lot of progress. There is no mistaking how far Myanmar has come technologically from my first visit to Myanmar to the present year of 2023 (the writing of this document), but I want to put things in relation to how far the US has come. (Unfortunately, my perspective is mainly due to being raised in the US and our technological advances, but the US is not unique in most of these areas.) In Myanmar, there are people who are aiming guns at each other. At SpaceX, Elon Musk is telling his employees to aim for Mars. [Video] Those people in Myanmar are thinking about the 100 meters in front of them. SpaceX is thinking 55,000 meters (34 million miles) in front of them, and they will get us there (among all of the other accomplishments SpaceX has achieved and will continue to achieve). The magnitude and scale of the problems and solutions the people at SpaceX are dealing with in comparison to those soldiers is incomparable. SpaceX is solving problems that no one in all of humanity has ever solved in the entirety of the human race since the beginning of humans, at a scale and complexity that is unimaginable!  [SpaceX Starship Rocket] 

To put things into another perspective, some people in Myanmar are thinking about fighting for a 100 meters of land around them. Elon Musk and his employees are thinking about the 93 billion light years of the entire universe around the Earth. People in Myanmar and other places of the world are fighting over the land around or near them, and Elon Musk is thinking about humanity taking entire planets. As far as we know, we are the only lifeforms in the entire universe. The entire universe is ours! 

We like to think that we are so evolved and different from other primates, but we are closer to monkeys fighting in trees for fruit trees than we are to being an interplanetary species.The difference between monkeys fighting in trees and us fighting on land is that our weapons are far more advanced, but in many ways, we are not more advanced. Our technology has advanced, but our way of thinking is still the same as monkeys. Instead of citizens and countries fighting each other for land, we can all be working together to take any planet, moon, and celestial object we want. Do you want another planet? Do you want another star? Do you want another solar system? Do you want an entire Nebula? Do you want an entire galaxy? The entire universe is ours! 

Think about a future in which we colonize other planets. Currently, terraforming a planet is beyond our technology. Colonizing places like the moon and Mars seem like the best candidates. However, we have another option besides just building structures on planets. We know that there are planets and moons in our solar system that have subsurface oceans. If the depth of that ocean is not too far below the surface, we can actually colonize that planet, drill and access that underground water, use electrolysis to mine oxygen and hydrogen from the water for air and fuel using electrolysis, filter that water to grow fish, make drinking water, water crops, build an underwater world, and seed that underwater ocean with fish (maybe not directly, but if we can filter the water, then we can create subterranean caverns with pools of water with fish and oxygen.) Think about terraforming a huge subterranean cavern with access to solar energy above ground, but shielded from harmful rays and lack of atmosphere by being underground. 

Imagine that your family was the only family on the entire planet and you found your children fighting over the front yard when you have the entire planet. That is how absolutely absurd fighting for land on Earth is when we can fight the problems keeping us from colonizing other planets. We are a bunch of monkeys fighting over some land when we have the entire universe. Every direction we look from Earth, as far as our telescopes can see, all of that is ours.

Before we continue, I want to talk a bit about Elon Musk. As a child, I grew up watching science fiction (sci-fi) and immediately fell in love with the sci-fi genre. Sci-fi allowed me to envision a world, not in the way in which the world was, but a way to envision the world in what the world could be some day. From childhood to adulthood, I not only saw the world through my eyes, but I also saw the world through my imagination. Then, I realized that my imagination did not have to remain a thought but in many ways, could actually become a reality. Elon Musk’s early company was Paypal, which was a company that allowed us to make online purchases. Because of his idea and company, online payment and online payment systems exist all over the world. Elon then created Tesla, which is a company that makes self-driving electric vehicles. As a child, self-driving cars were part of sci-fi stories that most of us believed would not be possible in our lifetime. Now, self-driving cars are becoming prevalent and are showing up in cities all over the US and parts of the world. 

Elon then created SpaceX, which is making breakthroughs and space more accessible to all of us. We may not currently have space flight accessible to us, but we definitely have gained from his company allowing more private industry and technology to gain access to space with satellites. Starlink is one of those companies Elon has created that has benefited from creating a satellite system that is providing internet access to places all over the world. Elon has created Neuralink, which is a company that is working on technology that gives us the ability to have a direct connection from our brain to the internet.

There was a time when we may not have had any of those technologies. Elon was close to losing all of his money if Tesla collapsed. If Tesla collapsed, we may not have had SpaceX, Neuralink, self-driving electric cars, Starlink, and the upcoming xAI. With the help of all of those employees at all of those companies, he brought all of those technologies to all of humanity and has been making sci-fi a reality.  

The reason I wanted to emphasize his life and contributions is because, multiple times during his career, people ridiculed his ideas, made negative comments, told him none of his ideas would work, and even told him his ideas were impossible. Their limitation was not his limitation. They thought things were impossible because they did not envision and believe what was possible. He even had his heroes speak against him and try to prevent him from achieving his dreams and visions, which are for all of us. [video] Thankfully, Elon has proved people wrong time after time. 

We must, in many ways, be the Elon Musk’s of Myanmar. We must not view Myanmar the way in which Myanmar is currently, but the way in which Myanmar can and will become. We must understand the journey of how one man made all of those things possible for the entire world. We must overcome all of our own problems because Elon showed us the ability to overcome even more problems than we could have ever imagined, and he has succeeded time and time again. We too will make things that seem impossible possible because we too will persevere toward the future we create. There are times when I doubt myself, but people like Elon Musk continue to inspire and motivate me. Our visions and dreams are far too important, and we must not stop until they become a reality for everyone else. 

Some places in the US already have driverless cars. [Driverless cars] Currently, there may be some issues, but this is always the case with new technology. The first cars that rolled off of Ford’s assembly line ran into all sorts of real issues at that time. Cars breaking down, getting stuck in mud, running out of gas, not starting, and many other early issues. In fact, we still have many of these issues today, but think about all of the advances we have today because of cars. Did you know that the average horsepower for cars in 2023 is 200 horsepower? Do you know how much horsepower horses had before cars were created? 1 horsepower! Granted, horses have nowhere near all of the problems cars can have, our lives are vastly better because of cars.

Amazon has automated robotics facilities. [Amazon warehouse1] [Amazon Warehouse2] These things are the future, but they are all happening right now. We are living in the future.  Well, some of us are. When will Myanmar join what is happening right now, or will Myanmar always live in the past? Tesla has integrated robotics into their facilities. [Tesla factory] Amazon has begun to deliver packages with drones. [Amazon drones] Surgeons are using robotics. [Robotic surgery] At some point in the near future, we will have more and more robotic surgery rooms all over the world. The best surgeons in the world can live in their own country and have their own comforts, while doing surgery on someone in another country. If we need surgery, we will go to a robotics facility, wait, and someone from around the world will do surgery on us. The great news is that people in less developed countries may be able to have access to the best surgeons in the world because of these types of technologies. 

CRISPR is a gene editing technique that is being researched and used. We really do not need to get into all of the implications this means, but this technology is being used now, and more will come. I will not get into all the areas that ML and AI are involved in the current world. A few AIs are trying to discover new medicines. ChatGPT (this has many usages, but we will see teachers leverage this a lot more in classrooms, as well as students asking questions to ChatGPT on tablets). AI in medicine. [Medicine] AIs are personal assistants. [Google Assistant] AIs are managing vertical farms for vegetables. They control the lighting, when to water, when to turn on and off the lights, which plants need more fertilizer, which types of fertilizers, when to harvest, what temperature is needed, what intensity of light, and when to harvest. Here are people from all over the world coming together to build a fusion reactor in France. [ITER]

I will not get into all of the current smart tech going on in homes all over the US, but the common theme is voice automation. Things like Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa pair with smart devices and help us with tasks through voice commands. That is gearing us toward a voice automated future. We will be saying things like, “Google, send car to pick up kids from school at 3pm, set timer for sous vide steak at 2pm and turn off at 3pm, order Italian food for spouse and send to their work at 11:30am, send spouse email at 10am telling them that I ordered food for them, have ChatGPT write me a 6 page article on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to have read to me tonight, check for best current birthday gifts for men under $100 and email me that list, read me the email with the list of best current birthday gifts, order number 4 from that list and send that package to Liam and make sure to use gift wrapping, order all of the ingredients for chicken fettuccine alfredo tomorrow and deliver to the house at 8am, email me the recipe, instructions, and a few Youtube videos for chicken fettuccine alfredo, take the dog for a walk around 9am today, buy tickets for the movie tonight around 7pm, order dessert from bakery and have delivered at the house at 5pm”. Granted, some of those things will be done automatically with schedules because they are daily repetitive tasks. The future will definitely be more voice automated. AIs are fighting climate change. [Climate] 

Try to find Myanmar on the Human Development Index (HDI) and look at which countries are below and above Myanmar. Nothing against Syria, Kenya, Zambia, Papua New Guinea, and Pakistan, but should Myanmar be that close to them on the HDI list? The HDI uses metrics such as “long and healthy life,” “knowledge,” and “a decent standard of living.” My ideas are to try to increase all three of those metrics and more. Can one of Myanmar’s overall goals (besides the UN 17 goals) be to get Myanmar higher on that list? Technically, Myanmar should be matched with Thailand, but they are nowhere close to Thailand on the HDI list. Thailand should be higher on that list.

Granted, a few countries on that list benefit from the sale of natural resources, like oil-rich countries, but Thailand has a vast number of resources in the form of land. Trees, minerals, and oil are natural resources. If not maintained, these resources can diminish to nothing. However, land is space. Places like Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos have a lot of land. If utilized correctly, that land is not a diminishing resource; therefore, making that resource even more valuable in the right hands. We can use available land to extend the lives of people instead of land being used to shorten lives, we will save lives, and make people’s lives a whole lot better. The truth is that agriculture, and what I say here, is only a small part of developing Myanmar. If we can unite together in this way, I will show you far more ways in which we can take simple systems and make far larger and more complex systems. The things I have said here are small and simple. We have not even begun to get to the really amazing systems and complexity.   

I would like to think that these are not meaningless words:

[Myanmar Anthem]

တရားမျှတ လွတ်လပ်ခြင်းနဲ့ မသွေ၊

တို့ပြည်၊ တို့မြေ၊

များလူခပ်သိမ်း၊ ငြိမ်းချမ်းစေဖို့၊

ခွင့်တူညီမျှ၊ ဝါဒဖြူစင်တဲ့ပြည်၊

တို့ပြည်၊ တို့မြေ၊

ပြည်ထောင်စုအမွေ၊ အမြဲတည်တံ့စေ၊

အဓိဋ္ဌာန်ပြုပေ၊ ထိန်းသိမ်းစို့လေ။

ကမ္ဘာမကျေ၊[2] မြန်မာပြည်၊[10][c]

တို့ဘိုးဘွား အမွေစစ်မို့ ချစ်မြတ်နိုးပေ။

ပြည်ထောင်စုကို အသက်ပေးလို့ တို့ကာကွယ်မလေ၊

ဒါတို့ပြည် ဒါတို့မြေ တို့ပိုင်နက်မြေ။

တို့ပြည် တို့မြေ အကျိုးကို ညီညာစွာတို့တစ်တွေ

ထမ်းဆောင်ပါစို့လေ တို့တာဝန်ပေ အဖိုးတန်မြေ။

Accompanied with justice and freedom;
our nation, our motherland.
To bring peace to all people;
the nation having equal right and pure policy,
our nation, our motherland.
Let us preserve with vow
for perpetuity of our heritage of the Union.
 

As long as the world exists, we love Myanmar,
the true heritage of our ancestors.
We shall safeguard the Union by sacrificing our lives.
This is our nation, our motherland and our own land.
Let us serve unitedly for the interest of our nation, our motherland.
That is our duty for the precious land.  

I would like to take the time to mention something that rarely gets addressed. Mental health. 

Part of creating these systems is to help people, and just as crucial to helping them is to train them to be able to help themselves and each other. That is to give them hope. That is to inspire them. That is to give them the means and processes to uplift themselves out of poverty. That is to empower them to be in control of the change in their own environments. Does that mean that people in poverty cannot be happy? Of course not, but they can be a whole lot happier. Yes, we want to eradicate poverty, malnutrition, and raise the standard of living. What we cannot forget is that we are trying to make a difference in their lives, and they are seeing people try and make a difference in their lives. 

Are there people who will say negative things about your ideas? Of course. Does any of that matter to someone in poverty? Not at all. What matters are the people who try to help them. What matters is that we let them know that they are not forgotten and surely not left behind without any help. We let them know that there are people out there—strangers, people that they have never met—who are willing to help them because helping them is the right thing to do. We let them know that they may be in poverty; some may have lost everything; some orphans may have lost their parents; some may have lost their homes. However, they have never lost their humanity, and we have never stopped loving them. Those systems will also inspire the next generation to believe that they can and will get out of poverty. 

Also, we need to uplift our leaders as well. Agriculture is really a tool. A tool to help. A means to reach a vision of a better Myanmar. I chose agriculture for many reasons, but agriculture is just one system of many different systems. Burmese people need to understand that we need way more systems. If the leaders do not think that way, then the leaders need help. We need to educate our leaders. We like to think that only people in poverty need help, but leaders need just as much help too, if not more.   

A leader is the "mountain top," and if that mountain top is only so high, then the rest of the mountain will only be so high. We must constantly let our leaders know that we want to make things better because we want things to be better. That does not mean that we are not happy. That means that we want to be happier and make people happier. We want to live better lives. We want to laugh more, smile more, and enjoy life more. Not out of greed or a constant desire and lust, but to enjoy this beautiful gift of life in all of the ways we can and help others join in that beauty.

Do not try, and only help a village. Think about helping an entire country. Do not think about only helping to clean your street; think about how we can clean an entire country and keep the country clean. Do not only think about helping some orphans, but also how we can help every orphan. People all over the world right now are thinking about how to solve the world’s problems. Be one of these people. We live in an age with the sharing of information and technology, where when we solve one problem, we solve that same problem for the entire world. Every time I publish information on this website, I give this information to the entire world. Think about scaling up the things that you do. If you have a great idea, scale that idea to the rest of the world. Think big! 

If you have read this, I ask that you share all of the knowledge and information on this website. As knowledge and information were given to me, I ask that you give this knowledge to others. That is the start. This is the beginning. This is where we lead every Burmese citizen to come together in unity for the same vision. One day, the children of Myanmar will be looking thousands of kilometers ahead. One day, the children of Myanmar will be thinking 100 years into the future. On the day we all stand and face the same direction, not against each other, Myanmar will truly know peace. On the day that all Burmese face the same direction, Myanmar will realize that many around the world are facing the same direction as us.

တစ်ရက်၊ တစ်ရက်၊ တစ်ရက်

တခါတရံ လရောင်အောက်မှာ အိပ်တယ်။

ပြီးတော့ ဘုရားသခင်ကို ကျေးဇူးတင်တယ် ငါအသက်ရှုနေတယ်

ထို့နောက် “ငါ့ကို အမြန်မယူပါနဲ့လို့ ငါဆုတောင်းတယ်။

ငါဒီမှာအကြောင်းပြချက်ရှိလို့ပါ"

တစ်ခါတလေကျရင် မျက်ရည်တွေကျတယ်။

ဒါ​ပေမယ့်​ ကျွန်​​တော်​ ဘယ်​​တော့မှ လက်​မ​လျှော့လိုက်​ပါနဲ့။

ဒီတော့ အဆိုးမြင်စိတ်တွေ ဝိုင်းလာတဲ့အခါ

တစ်နေ့နေ့ တစ်ချိန်ချိန်မှာတော့ အားလုံးက လှည့်ပြန်သွားမှာကို သိတယ်။

တစ်သက်လုံး စောင့်နေခဲ့တယ်။

လူတွေပြောဖို့ ဆုတောင်းနေခဲ့တယ်။

အဲဒါကို ငါတို့ မတိုက်ချင်တော့ဘူး။

စစ်ပွဲတွေ ရှိတော့မှာ မဟုတ်ဘူး၊ ငါတို့ ကလေးတွေ ကစားကြလိမ့်မယ်။

တစ်ရက်(တစ်ရက်)၊ တစ်ရက်(တစ်ရက်)၊

တစ်နေ့ (အိုး-အိုး-အိုး)

တစ်ရက်(တစ်ရက်)၊ တစ်ရက်(တစ်ရက်)၊

တစ်နေ့ (အိုး-အိုး-အိုး)

အနိုင်ရသည်ဖြစ်စေ အရှုံးနှင့်မပတ်သက်ပါ။

အပြစ်မဲ့သူများ၏ ဝိညာဉ်ကို ကျွေးမွေးသောအခါ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့အားလုံး ဆုံးရှုံးရသောကြောင့်ဖြစ်သည်။

သွေးတွေရွှဲနေတဲ့ လမ်းခင်း

ရေတွေ ညစ်ပတ်နေပေမယ့် ဆက်လှုပ်ရှား

ဤဝင်္ကပါတွင် သင်သည် သင်၏လမ်း၊ သင်၏လမ်းကို ဆုံးရှုံးနိုင်သည်။

ဒါဟာ သင့်ကို ရူးသွပ်စေနိုင်ပါတယ်။

ဒါပေမယ့် မင်းကို ဘယ်လိုမှ မလှည့်စားမိပါစေနဲ့

တစ်ခါတလေကျရင် မျက်ရည်ကျတယ် (ရေနစ်တယ်)

ဒါပေမယ့် ငါဘယ်တော့မှ နှိမ့်ချမသွားစေနဲ့ (ငါ့ကို နှိမ့်ချပါ)

ဒီတော့ အဆိုးမြင်စိတ်က ဝန်းရံ (surrounds)၊

တစ်နေ့နေ့ တစ်ချိန်ချိန်မှာတော့ အားလုံးက လှည့်ပြန်သွားမှာကို သိတယ်။

တစ်သက်လုံး စောင့်နေခဲ့တယ် (စောင့်နေခဲ့တယ်)

လူတွေပြောဖို့ (ဆုတောင်းဘို့) ငါဆုတောင်းနေခဲ့တယ်။

ငါတို့ မတိုက်ချင်တော့ဘူး (မတိုက်တော့ဘူး)

စစ်ပွဲတွေ ရှိတော့မှာ မဟုတ်ဘူး (စစ်ပွဲတွေ မရှိတော့ဘူး)၊ ငါတို့ ကလေးတွေ ကစားကြလိမ့်မယ်။

တစ်ရက်(တစ်ရက်)၊ တစ်ရက်(တစ်ရက်)၊

တစ်နေ့ (အိုး၊ အိုး၊ အိုး၊ အိုး-အိုး၊ တစ်နေ့)

တစ်ရက်(တစ်ရက်)၊ တစ်ရက်(တစ်ရက်)၊

တစ်နေ့ (အိုး-အိုး-အိုး)

တစ်နေ့တွင် ဤအရာအားလုံးသည် ပြောင်းလဲ၍ လူတို့ကို တူညီစွာဆက်ဆံလိမ့်မည်။

မုန်းတီးမှုတွေနဲ့ ရပ်တန့်လိုက်ပါ။

တစ်နေ့တော့ ငါတို့အားလုံး လွတ်လပ်ပြီး ဂုဏ်ယူကြလိမ့်မယ်။

နေရောင်အောက်မှာ လွတ်လပ်ရေးသီချင်းတွေ သီဆိုပါ။

ဝါယို (တစ်နေ့၊ တစ်နေ့)၊ ဝါယို၊ အို၊ အို (အိုး-အို-အို)

ဝါယို (တစ်နေ့၊ တစ်နေ့)၊ ဝါယို၊ အို၊ အို (အိုး-အို-အို)

တစ်သက်လုံး စောင့်နေခဲ့တယ်။

လူတွေပြောဖို့ ဆုတောင်းနေခဲ့တယ်။

အဲဒါကို ငါတို့ မတိုက်ချင်တော့ဘူး။

စစ်ပွဲတွေ ရှိတော့မှာ မဟုတ်ဘူး၊ ငါတို့ ကလေးတွေ ကစားကြလိမ့်မယ်။

တစ်ရက်(တစ်ရက်)၊ တစ်ရက်(တစ်ရက်)၊

တစ်နေ့ (အိုး-အိုး-အိုး)

တစ်ရက်(တစ်ရက်)၊ တစ်ရက်(တစ်ရက်)၊

တစ်နေ့ (အိုး-အိုး-အိုး)

တစ်ရက်၊ တစ်ရက်၊ တစ်ရက် 

ENGLISH LYRICS

One day, one day, one day

Sometimes I lay under the moon
And thank God I'm breathin'
Then I pray, "Don't take me soon
'Cause I am here for a reason"

Sometimes in my tears I drown
But I never let it get me down
So when negativity surrounds
I know someday, it'll all turn around because

All my life, I've been waitin' for
I've been prayin' for, for the people to say
That we don't wanna fight no more
There'll be no more wars, and our children will play

One day (one day), one day (one day)
One day (oh-oh-oh)
One day (one day), one day (one day)
One day (oh-oh-oh)

It's not about win or lose
'Cause we all lose when they feed on the souls of the innocent
Blood-drenched pavement
Keep on movin' though the waters stay ragin'

In this maze, you can lose your way, your way
It might drive you crazy
But don't let it faze you, no way, no way

Sometimes in my tears I drown (I drown)
But I never let it get me down (get me down)
So when negativity surrounds (surrounds)
I know someday, it'll all turn around because

All my life, I've been waitin' for (waitin' for)
I've been prayin' for (prayin' for), for the people to say
That we don't wanna fight no more (fight no more)
There'll be no more wars (no more wars), and our children will play

One day (one day), one day (one day)
One day (oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, one day)
One day (one day), one day (one day)
One day (oh-oh-oh)

One day, this all will change, treat people the same
Stop with the violence, down with the hate
One day, we'll all be free and proud to be
Under the same sun, singin' songs of freedom like

Wah-yo (one day, one day), wah-yo, oh, oh (oh-oh-oh)
Wah-yo (one day, one day), wah-yo, oh, oh (oh-oh-oh)

All my life, I've been waitin' for
I've been prayin' for, for the people to say
That we don't wanna fight no more
There'll be no more wars, and our children will play

One day (one day), one day (one day)
One day (oh-oh-oh)
One day (one day), one day (one day)
One day (oh-oh-oh)
One day, one day, one day

The writer:

I am a Burmese and Chinese American who was raised in the US. This website is our family tribute and dedication to Myanmar and every Burmese person. Our family never forgot Myanmar, and our family surely never left anyone behind. For Myanmar’s future, each of us holds the keys to opening the doors for every Burmese after us. Together, we will unlock every door.   

A special thank you to the people of Thailand. I was able to create this website and do most of my research while living in Thailand, as well as enjoy many other benefits. Of course, as an American, my views are largely shaped by my influences, a few of which are core American values such as the understanding that we are all endowed by the creator with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. May we all share in a world full of happiness. The reality is that Myanmar’s Future Vision is not only about Myanmar, but a future vision in which we work together with the rest of the world. If we look at things from a religious aspect, Christianity is a religion of love—love for ourselves and for each other—and this document is a document about love. If we look at Buddhism, Buddhism is about the development of the inner self outwards. The Myanmar's Future Vision webpage is about developing Myanmar so that we can help develop things beyond. These are not two opposing ideas, but two religions that come together for the same goals. We realize that both religions are about love and compassion, and both religions are about development for the better.    

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