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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (10 children)

How can multibillionaires even exist in a communist country!?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

Hint: communism doesn't work in practice on scales the size of nations. The ideology is too fragile and susceptible to corruption and outside influence and you end up with shit like this.

Before anyone says "it's not real communism" that is the point. It's useless if it's too weak against other ideologies to be properly implemented.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The same argument can be applied for free market capitalism: it's too fragile and susceptible to corruption and outside influence. The reality is that the big economies of the world lie somewhere in the middle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Correct assessment. Absolutism in political systems is unproductive and leads to poor outcomes.

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