"nogat wok"

is a sign which is hung on a lot of gates - it means go away, there is no work here. In this land where gardening and self sufficiency come natural to what it means to be a PNGn, PNGns need PAID work - not for survival because they are naturally self sufficient - but to participate in the trappings of urban living: clothes, cigarettes, fast food, videos, tinned food, beer, PMV travel, rent, kerosene.
Village life has everything a PNGn or any other person needs to physically and emotionally survive. But urban life is attractive because there is more and varied society. Unfortunately it is also more expensive in CASH terms. Thus people need readily exchangeable cash procured mainly by means of paid employment or private enterprise such as selling buai or cigarettes or bottles of oil or bleach, or pens or bandaids.
For people who WANT to work as a matter of PRIDE to show off their VALUES, a sign such as "nogat wok" reads as a punch in the belly. Urban living was brought to PNG. Is there not some responsibility to make it function by removing "nogat wok" signs and developing an employment strategy?