And she built a new house recently for 25,000 dachas. Another borrower buys flour to make biscuits. And this woman bought straw to make baskets. In a country as poor as Bangladesh, for as little as ten of fifteen dollars, people can create their own businesses, instead of waiting around for a job. Yunus thinks this is true everywhere.
People create their own jobs, and that's how the human history began.
We'd be all finished. We wouldn't be here today. They went out and got their fruits, hunted their animals, and ate themselves. That's their self-employment. Today we just fold our hands and say we don't have a job.