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System D is a manner of responding to challenges that require one to have the ability to think quickly, to adapt, and to improvise when getting a job done. The term gained wider popularity in the United States after appearing in the 2006 publication of Anthony Bourdain's The Nasty Bits.^[1] Bourdain references finding the term in Nicolas Freeling's memoir, The Kitchen, about Freeling's years as a Grand Hotel cook in France.^[2] The term is a direct translation of French Systeme D. The letter D refers to any one of the French nouns debrouille,^[3] debrouillardise ^[4] or demerde (French slang). The verbs se debrouiller and se demerder mean to make do, to manage, especially in an adverse situation. Basically, it refers to one's ability and need to be resourceful.^[5] In Down and Out in Paris and London,^[6] George Orwell described the term debrouillard as something the lowest-level kitchen workers, the plongeurs, wanted to be called, indicating that they were people who would get the job done, no matter what. In recent literature on the informal economy, System D is the growing share of the world's economy which makes up the underground economy, which as of 2011^[update] has a projected GDP of $10 trillion.^[7]^ [8]^[9] The informal economy is usually considered as one part of a dual economy.^[10] The concept of dual economy is where the economy is divided into two parts - the formal and the informal. The formal economy consists of all economic activities that operate within the official legal framework and are regulated by the government. In common parlance, it is understood as enterprises and citizens who pay taxes on all generated incomes. The reason Neuwirth describes this kind of an economy as a DIY economy or system D is because of the self-reliance of the members within this sector. Due to lack of documentation, such as proof of citizenship, tax ID number, proof of identity or proof of address, people working in this sector are usually left with no way to seek support from their governments. This means that they are unable to access formal institutions which require documentation, and forces them to be self-reliant. This is not to be confused with autarky or self-reliant economies. Economists define self-sufficiency or self-reliance^[11] as the state of not requiring any aid, support, interaction, or trade with the outside world. It is generally believed that a fully self-dependent economy or autarky is not possible in today's world.^[citation needed ] The term in different languages[edit] There are a range of terms in other languages describing similar circumstances. Examples for those are Trick 17^ [de] in German, Trick 77 in Swiss German, kikka kolmonen (Trick 3) in Finnish, 'n boer maak 'n plan in Afrikaans,^[12]^[self-published source?] to hack it in English, desenrascanco in European Portuguese, se virar in Brazilian Portuguese, Jugaad in Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi,^[13] jua kali in Swahili,^[14] diskarte in Tagalog^[15] and article 15 in Congolese French. See also[edit] * Agorism * Bricolage * WIEGO * systemd, a suite of system components for Linux, whose name is inspired by System D. References[edit] [40px] Look up debrouillard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 1. ^ Bourdain, Anthony (2006). The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 1-58234-451-5. 2. ^ Freeling, Nicolas (1970). The Kitchen. Hamish Hamilton, Ltd. ASIN B0006D075O. 3. ^ "Systeme D (Definition)". 4. ^ "debrouillard". Webster's New World College Dictionary. 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-24. 5. ^ "demerder | translate French to English". Cambridge Dictionary. 6. ^ Orwell, George (1933). Down and Out in Paris and London. London: Victor Gollancz. ISBN 0-15-626224-X. 7. ^ Neuwirth, Robert (2011). Stealth of Nations:the Global Rise of the Informal Economy. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-375-42489-2. 8. ^ Capps, Robert (2011-12-16). "Why Black Market Entrepreneurs Matter to the World Economy". Wired. Retrieved 2012-03-26. 9. ^ Neuwirth, Robert (2011-10-28). "The Shadow Superpower". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2012-03-26. 10. ^ Clement, Christine. "The formal-informal economy dualism in a retrospective of economic thought since the 1940s" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) 11. ^ Godfrey. "What is Economic Self-Reliance?".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) 12. ^ "Saying - South Africa | USC Digital Folklore Archives". 13. ^ Philip, Kavita; Irani, Lilly; Dourish, Paul (January 2012). "Postcolonial Computing: A Tactical Survey". Science, Technology, & Human Values. 37 (1): 3-29. doi:10.1177/0162243910389594. S2CID 856332. 14. ^ Wiens, Mark (2011-07-24). "Jua Kali - The Informal Kenyan Sector for "Git Er Done"". Migrationology. Retrieved 2018-06-16. 15. ^ "DISKARTE". Tagalog Lang. 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