Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "What Eating the Rich Did For Japan" video.

  1. And once upon a time in the late 1980's, Nintendo had an actual monopoly on the video game market.
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  2. Still better than the communist dystopias that are North Korea and Cambodia.
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  3. Better to be Japan than North Korea, a communist hellhole that even fellow communist hellhole China doesn't like but supports if only to keep the West via South Korea at bay.
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  4. <n America, most retired people live on soft socialist programs & egalitarian policies that created social security, medicare & medicaid programs. > All paid for by the rich who account for 70% of all taxes paid.
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  5. Says the greedy and envious.
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  6. Not nearly as much as (leftist) governments.
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  7. Fascism is an offspring of socialism. And Hitler's policies were on par with Lenin and Stalin's, ethnic connotations aside.
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  8.  @Regonix  "True" socialism/communism as the poster advocates was already tried in Somalia after it s one-time Soviet-backed dictator was ousted. It had no state (literally, no government), no money (formal economy) and no classes (just pirates, warlords, goat-herders and ordinary folks).
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  9. Exactly. And can be as inefficient, incompetent, wasteful and costly as it desires.
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  10. Like the kulaks in Lenin's Russia/USSR.
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  11. Exactly.
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  12. The only monopolies that hurt countries are state/government ones.
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  13. Especially state ones.
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  14. Good luck with that as the world is every bit as corrupt as the the supposed rich you say it should eat.
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  15. Namely Ferdinand Marcos.
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  16. And into communist imperialism imposing it on its Eastern and Central European neighbors.
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  17. Only to bankrupt the business and put the workers out of work in the process.
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  18. Except politicians.
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  19. And collectivist.
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  20. Not really. Then you have to deal with state monopoly which have consistently done more stifle society.
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  21.  @prettyshortshorts  Not according to most governments, even the more communist ones.
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  22. Until it crippled their finances and had to borrow money to stave off bankruptcy.
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  23. <The West will die from too much individualism> While too much collectivism have rendered much of the East null and void.
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  24. No. Try the state.
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  25. <Communism revolutions are the worst, because they kill the smart people, including teachers, managers, thus no one knew how to make anything anymore.> Case in point: Cambodia under Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge.
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  26. Elizabeth Warren is part of the rich. Just like Bernie Sanders.
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  27.  @charlesgrove6905  Fascism is an offspring of communism.
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  28. <Western culture encourages laziness.> Thanks to social programs and welfare.
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