Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "DW News" channel.

  1. No. Blame rent control and government over-regulation that made Air BnB a thing.
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  2. With the government's permission and approval.
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  3. But in Argentina's case, the common people happily voted for it. Endless welfare. Fiscal sustainability be damned!
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  4. @クリンジー And watch the country go bankrupt due to a lack of tax revenue.
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  5. Exactly.
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  6.  @mucharejo1guacharacas915  No. God first. Everything else second.
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  7. Pretty much.
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  8.  @oasis5683  Venezuelan mismanagement.
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  9. But governments are not stopping it because real estate makes up a good portion of the country's GDP plus they're making money from property taxes, high land values, taxes on housing sales, building permit fees, etc.
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  10.  @kingericson490  Like much of Europe, France lives off of US military largesse.
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  11. Rent control enables Air BnB.
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  12.  Ben Ghazi  This is communism as Karl Marx, an atheist, advocated to bring about "a new man" by wholesale suppression of the individual including his belief in God.
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  13.  PerryViolin  Pretty much.
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  14.  @AH1-sr3bh  But China is no less a colonizer than France. Just ask a Tibetan.
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  15.  @refilweleburu9982  Poverty doesn't cause gullibility. Greed does. The greed to live the easy life.
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  16.  @andrew_owens7680  Short-term rentals being a thing because the governments they voted for made long-term rentals not worth maintaining.
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  17. Not the people protesting who happen to be public-sector workers, welfare-recipients and activists.
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  18.  @wiryantirta  Singapore/Japan: "First time?"
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  19. That's been the legacy of every country ran by Marxists.
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  20. No. We are struggling because we don't know how to live within our means.
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  21.  @SM-ce1uy  And the legacy of communism lives on.
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  22. Because only the rich and privileged could travel.
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  23.  @user-nm1lf6wj3z  Not really. That's of little consequence.
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  24. Because the older generations pissed it all away living the comfortable but unsustainable life.
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  25. Yes they can. They're strong and independent now.
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  26. <the host society should accept the international people with international language instead of forcing them to learn the local language.> For what? Most of the locals don't speak the "international language." And people will be dealing with them a lot.
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  27. Only to be subservient to Russia?
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  28.  mohammed aidara  No. Thanks to the evil Chavista government that destroyed domestic industry reducing Venezuela to being a one-trick pony economy.
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  29.  @georgesikimeti2184  Not really as most of those fellow citizens will just piss it all away and end up right back at square one.
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  30. Vanity, pride and ego.
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  31. <When you tax the rich higher taxes, that money could help provide a livelihood for these poor people.> That is until the money runs out and there are no more rich people to tax. And then what?
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  32. But the French had to go, though.
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  33.  Ben Ghazi  The Kibbutz hardly exist anymore as they abandoned socialism for capitalism.
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  34. Pretty much.
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  35. Exactly.
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  36.  @_-_kevin13905  But India was much poorer before having to rely on foreign aid to feed itself.
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  37. Starting with you. After all, you're richer than the homeless beggars you pass by.
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  38. Venezuela killed off all of its other industries to prop up the oil one.
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  39. <People keep blaming communism because they have been brainwashed by the propeganda.> No. People keep blaming communism, because suppression of religion is what communism have consistently done once it establishes itself as the only game in town like Albania with its banning of religion, the Soviet Union with militant Atheism , etc. What China is doing is just par for the communist course.
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  40. Very much.
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  41. He was the one who allowed Whites to keep the land and wealth despite sharing the same Marxist views as Mugabe who went ahead and took the land and wealth away from Whites.
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  42. The US sanctions started in 2017.
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  43.  @davidz3879  But Japan is disintegrating.
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  44. Exactly.
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  45.  @helenpauls1496  <it’s a choice. > Until you get fired from your job or "canceled" if you dare speak out against it.
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  46. LOL. All skinfolk are not kinfolk.
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  47. It's 9-9-6. Not 5.
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  48. It looks like Tanzania hasn't fully let go of Julius Nyerere's way of doing things.
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  49. It is bad. There's a reason why the Baltics got out as son as they could.
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  50. Because the national government allowed them to. Don't you just love investor immigration?
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