This is rich - Sri Lanka

A bit of a history lesson for budding socialists everywhere - this sort of crap does not work.
Never has, never will.  End of story.

From the website of the World Economic Forum - August 29th, 2018:

Sri Lanka PM: This is how I will make my country rich by 2025
This is an important moment in Sri Lanka’s development, as the country continues to deliver on its plans for economic development and stands on the cusp of a transition to a knowledge-based economy.

Since the country and its people saw a vibrant transition in its political landscape in January 2015, further bolstered by the August 2015 general elections that formed a national unity government – a first ever political experience for the country since its nearly seven decades of independence – Sri Lanka has put in place many of the building blocks needed to reinvigorate its socio-economic and political architecture.

We have achieved many positive gains over the last three years through bold policy initiatives and pragmatic strategies, that enabled the country to win back recognition and friendly engagements with the rest of world. This has been a key foreign policy achievement of our government. Doors are open again for constructive and friendly engagements that have eased economic and political pressures. However, as per the expectations of all our people, there is more to achieve and the government plans with due diligence to make Sri Lanka regain its centrality in the Indian Ocean and become a knowledge-based, highly competitive hub with a dynamic social-market economy.

And will the elites pause to consider the harm they have done here?  Nope - it just wasn't done "hard enough" - they have to do it again and double-down harder this time...  A two-year-old burning their fingers on a stove will be careful around stoves for the rest of their lives.  These people?