Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "The Economics of Poverty" video.

  1. Poorly governed.
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  2. Both of them are ran by Marxists.
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  3.  @johndavidmanuel2189  Nope.
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  4. Thanks to its EU membership. Otherwise, Spain would have been in the same position as its Latin American offspring.
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  5.  @asscheeks3212  He also also forgot that Soviet Russia was every bit as imperialist as America is. Just ask anyone from Eastern Europe or Afghanistan.
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  6. Colonialism pales in comparison to the socialism that many African countries adopted after independence.
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  7.  @shoebillsankuru  A la Ethiopia circa Mengistu.
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  8.  @pirozigzigwam8594  Actually, India's IQ is 82.
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  9. Ian Smith was right for not caving in to British pressure to decolonize.
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  10.  @johnallen7807  And also Iceland.
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  11.  @123456789bode  Plus, Greece with help from Goldman Sachs lied about their finances to get in the Eurozone.
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  12. No it isn't.
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  13. Without the EU, individual countries just simply don't stand a chance against America or China politically and economically.
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  14.  @alexanderfeustel3500  Namely China.
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  15. The Bahamas, Botswana and Barbados. But general, you're right.
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  16. That requires accountability and a strong legal system administered by people with integrity. The problem with the DRC is that it has neither as it has corrupt leadership and an equally corrupt populace.
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  17. They would need a capitalist-minded leader for that. Not another Marxist or Mobutu who was a Mao-fanboy while claiming anti-communist.
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  18.  Jonathan Williams  Exactly. It's not the West's fault that many African countries after independence chose socialism not just to flip them the bird.
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  19. LOL. Hardly. African workers are barred from the infrastructure projects China does in favor of Chinese workers and architects.
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  20.  @kasperknutsen8283  Like Sri Lanka. China is colonizing countries via buyouts.
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  21.  @hung-upear2659  Or Japan after two of its cities got nuked.
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  22.  @Jo-vn7tg  The leadership is a mere reflection of the populace that elected them.
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  23.  @AlbertRossvids  Or because the nation has a weak private sector and virtually all the well-paying jobs are state ones.
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  24.  @fuckfannyfiddlefart  Socialism doesn't work. And its own neighbors can attest to that. Why don't you do better?
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  25. Eh. Don't forget the Marxism that it adopted post-independence as a F U to the West and the capitalist economic model that gave it whatever prosperity it had prior.
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  26. But presently, a lot of educated Africans much rather risk their lives to live in the West than build up their own countries.
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  27.  @ganonzero1  But the problem is that the educated that do stay home don't want to build.
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  28. LMAO. True.
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  29.  @flakgun153  And also the general lack of infrastructure and a centralized economy.
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  30.  @johndavidmanuel2189  Africa already did socialism.
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  31.  @watchout3811  In their case, on a land where everything grew and food was plentiful, the had no incentive to do much beyond basic survival. If anything, complacency did them in. They evolved in a climate that didn't demand much from them in terms of long-term planning.
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  32. Enabled and facilitated by the Democrat Party. See any Black-majority US city such as Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, etc.
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  33. Not they're not. Not having machinery is probably part of the reason for their low life-expectancy.
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  34. What free market? Much of Africa have a centralized state-run economy.
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