You probably have never heard of System D. Neither had I until I started visiting street markets and unlicensed bazaars around the globe.         System D is a slang phrase pirated from French-speaking Africa and the Caribbean. The French have a word that they often use to describe particularly effective and motivated people. They call them débrouillards. To say a man is a débrouillard is to tell people how resourceful and ingenious he is. The former French colonies have sculpted this word to their own social and economic reality. They say that inventive, self-starting, entrepreneurial merchants who are doing business on their own, … Continue reading Grade A,   Plan B,   Middle C,   System D,   Vitamin E     (Robert Neuwirth)