Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "TED-Ed" channel.

  1. That's how leftists operate.
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  2. Exactly.
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  3. Remember when income tax was a temporary measure?
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  4. LOL. No. Charity just further perpetuates poverty as the poor will eventually no longer bother to improve their situation.
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  5. In other words, he was naive and delusional.
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  6. Charity doesn't work. It just encourages laziness and co-dependency.
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  7. @ Shruk Pls And before that was the Khmer Rouge.
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  8. Exactly.
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  9. You wouldn't be saying that if he had conservative political views.
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  10. And this is why all revolutions aside from the American one have been proven failures. If anything, they have consistently proven Robespierre right in it will eventually eat its own.
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  11. Corruption is not going anywhere as long as humans are around. By the way, the poor are every bit as corrupt as the rich.
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  12. Because of its 104-plus year track record of failure in every country it has been practiced?
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  13. @ SpazzKid Which was caused by his forced collectivization of farmland policies.
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  14. So, what were the labor camps for then?
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  15. What he's saying is that the only reason why Lenin is seen is such a positive light is because he didn't live long enough to have more of his policies materialize and become the monster that he truly was like his successor, Stalin. So far, the only atrocity that happened under his watch was the Red Terror.
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  16. Leftists can do no wrong. And when they do wrong, there's always someone else or something to blame.
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  17. But communists meant well. LOL
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  18.  @link7417  Not as much as forcing those who work to pay for those who don't especially by choice. Now that's truly inhumane.
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  19. <it's sad. the social inequality is so obvious that it makes people more selfish> Inequality is natural. Humans don't have the same abilities or aspirations. <Empathy is an unknown word ...> A person can have only so much empathy. At some point in time, people are going to have to get their act together and stop being a burden to others.
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  20. LOL. Only 11.4% of Americans are poor.
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  21.  @jdubo1998  No it isn't. Was Castro equal to the average citizen he condemned to squalor?
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  22. You have only Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Democratic Party to thank for that.
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  23. LOL. No. Democratically owned means of production doesn't solve poverty. Especially by people who have no idea how to run said means of production. Yugoslavia actually had such after Tito's death to rather unflattering results.
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  24. <people use to live really A LOT better in USSR than in US and any other capitalist country.> Which lasted for a brief period of time. The problem with communism is that whatever success it does achieve is often short-lived requiring tyranny, foreign aid or reforms to sustain itself.
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  25. Poverty is a symptom and consequence.
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  26. Not really. Not everyone's interested in inbreeding or living like them.
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  27. LOL. And where's the money going to come from to pay for all that?
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  28.  @ExpatriatePaul  Collectivism = stagnation and tyranny.
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  29. LOL. Like England in the 1970's?
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  30.  @phelhadsu4080  Too bad they happened to be selfish themselves.
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  31. But the Soviet Union had forced labor.
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  32. Inflation.
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  33. Name a society that doesn't have a hierarchy.
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  34. Poor people will always exist independent of what system the world operates on.
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  35. Namely government bureaucrats.
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  36. <but then the left-leaning government didn't win re-election> Because of how they turned Ontario into a have-not province.
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  37. <Going left wing or asking for more government control is dangerous, communism killed 60 million people out of starvation, soviets went to deep poverty and so did the Chinese when they applied those ideals.> Also communism left every other country bankrupt.
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  38. But poverty is a symptom of bad luck exacerbated by bad choices.
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  39. But people don't do themselves any favors.
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  40. <3-punish divorce 4-disincentivize single motherhood> Eliminate alimony and child support. Award unconditional custody to the father.
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  41. LOL. Governments cannot create jobs. They can only create an environment that supports and encourages job-creation.
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  42. Like Somalia post-Barre? It had a moneyless (no formal economy), stateless (no functioning government) and classless (just warlords, pirates, goat-herders and ordinary folk) society.
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  43. Impoverish the population, enrich the government.
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  44. Ditto for Cuba.
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  45. <The rent there is ridiculous compared to the rent in a rural area or even a small town.> That's because the city has higher land values, more amenities and opportunities and people are willing to pay the price to live there. Rural areas and small towns have little going for them, too remote, and while housing prices are cheaper there are a lot of things one will have to do without which all but completely negates the benefits.
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  46. Not really. What may work in Sweden may not work in the US.
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  47. Because everyone is greedy themselves. This world will never work, because the people calling for greed to be checked are hardly saints and are motivated by envy and delusions of grandeur which are products of greed.
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  48. Yet interestingly, Sweden has more crime than the US.
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  49.  @iampiyushsingh7544  Communism failed even on a small scale.
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  50. Tax hikes actually protect the wealthy by undermining any attempt by the poor to improve their financial situation.
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  51.  @shamrock141  Actually it doesn't. And who's we?
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  52. No it won't. Inflation and human stupidity will keep poverty around.
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  53. Only for its benefits to be negated by inflation.
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  54. No it's not. It just makes everyone except the government poor.
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  55.  @RamsayBolton13  LOL. Nice joke.
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  56. LOL. So how did they manage to keep a high military budget and prop up its vassal states?
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  57.  @link7417  No one owes you anything let alone a living. <Nate I live in a small town where the only two major employers are fully staffed and I can't afford move down south where more jobs are,> I hate to break it to you, but that's YOUR problem.
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  58. That would be the government more than anyone else.
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  59. Like in Cuba?
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  60.  @dropyourself  But she was right.
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  61. <Let us do what we want to do!> I don't think you want that kind of society. How that's working out for Somalia and Haiti?
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  62. Yes.
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  63. Well, a lot of them are.
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  64. Circumstances beyond your control exacerbated by circumstances well within your control.
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  65. No. Try vanity and pride. Those are the fathers of greed.
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  66. Homelessness is a consequence, not the cause.
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  67. Get ready to pay living prices.
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  68. The only cruel humans people bend over backward to justify are revolutionary/liberator/progressive/leftist types.
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  69. LOL. That is just not optimal as running to the IMF for a bailout won't be too far off in the future.
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  70. Which people? The average person or the government lackey?
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  71. You better not cry about inflation and having to pay more for your goods to compensate for the raised minimum wage .
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  72. Only for you to be the first to want out. Even communism has inequality.
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  73.  @PHanomaly  <and those with wealth and power are called Republicans in the US,> Yet most of the poverty and inequality are situated in places where Democrats, not Republicans, run the show. Which is every other major and semi-major city in the country.
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  74. Eliminate income tax.
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  75. It would just simply cheapen the value of university education. Some things are just not mean for everyone.
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  76. Um. No. <Embrace Islamic economic system because it is a just system.> Tell that to the foreign migrants responsible for maintaining the infrastructure in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman and Qatar.
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  77. And shorten your lifespan.
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  78. Inequality is natural. Humans are just simply not alike in anything except death.
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  79. If anything, Lenin was a role model to every other (usually leftist) tyrants who claim compassion and empathy for the poor but are really just exploiting their plights for power. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Mugabe, Nkrumuh, Mengistu, Kim Il-Sung, Castro, Chavez, Ortega, Burnham, Ceausescu, etc.
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  80. Who's the rich?
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  81. And so are the people.
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  82. That's not sustainable. There's a reason why humanity moved on from that.
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  83. <I think It has a lot of potential if delivered in a sustainable and economic way.> There's nothing sustainable or economic about it. So don't hold your breath.
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  84. But there have to be some kind of standards and conditions to be met.
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  85. With an actual 1% and 99% left-wingers love to bemoan. The 1% being the government and well-connected and the 99% being everyone else.
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  86. Poverty is a consequence and symptom. Not a cause.
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  87. That's not a sustainable solution as many people will squander the wealth and resources becoming a burden and threat to those managed their wealth and resources wisely.
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  88. Reinstate Clinton's Welfare Reforms.
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  89. Remember. Income tax wasn't a thing until WW2.
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  90. And how many of those 43 000 000 are due to disagreeing with the President?
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  91. @Anon Ymous Much of it is. Everything else is just an add-on.
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  92. Not exactly as many will just simply squander and mismanage it.
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  93. Because poverty itself is a symptom.
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  94.  @jackward2191  Yet they have done plenty to help them stay poor further perpetuating poverty.
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  95. With what? Especially when all humans are generally corrupt. Some more so than others.
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  96. And the government welfare state that enabled it.
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  97. Only to stagnate, regress and eventually die out in the long run.
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  98. Term limits need to be reinstated.
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  99. Argentina is nowhere near the poorest even in South America let alone the world. But it sure is dysfunctional.
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  100. Eh. No. Plus the wealthiest Muslim countries are nothing without foreign labor and US military protection.
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  101. Get ready to pay higher prices for your goods to compensate.
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  102. <Why don't they move to cheaper living area? Commute to your job location.> Not everyone can drive. Cheaper COL area = too remote, no jobs or amenities, crime etc.
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  103. Ditto for Venezuela.
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  104. LOL.
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  105.  @agonleed3841  It does make sense when the money used to help said fellow citizens is often either borrowed or stolen. Throughout communism's history, it was done with such as its model was never sustainable to begin with.
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  106. Hardly. It was just the left doing what they do best. Eat their own.
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  107. Just because he didn't live long enough to kill more people doesn't make Lenin any less of a POS.
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  108. Says who? With that kind of thinking, you better not cry about the lack of businesses to buy anything from except big business.
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  109. Only to end jacking up operating costs and inflation.
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  110. That won't solve anything as that wealth will be squandered.
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  111. LOL. No it won't. And paying everyone 100K will far exceed the US's current GDP.
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  112. Athletes and celebrities have much shorter career spans on average than teachers and many other workers due to there being far more failed ones than successful ones. Also, their careers are dependent on physical prowess and (still) being to resonate with the mass audience.
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  113. Let's see how UBI when there's no food to buy, because there are no people to produce it let alone sell it including the ingredients needed to make it.
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  114. Because the rich save and invest. The poor spend all they have.
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  115.  @miaotsetung  Marx barely worked a day in his life and lived off of other people.
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  116. You can start by eliminating income tax altogether.
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  117. Belarus is a dictatorship and a Russian buffer state.
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  118.  @TheKumarImpressions  And both of those places are run by Liberals.
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  119. No. Plenty of problems existed even in Jesus's time and there were far fewer people.
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  120. <Thats why they consistently rank at the top of the annual happiness index for countries> Yet interestingly have high suicide rates. And Sweden actually has more crime than the US.
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  121.  @link7417  But more likely due to being not up to the task.
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  122. Poverty will never be eradicated and it has nothing to do with the rich and ruling class. It has a lot to do with the poor themselves and the way they go about life.
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  123. Nope. Gotta be a single mom.
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  124. Especially when exacerbated by the usual circumstances beyond your control.
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  125. With what money?
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  126. Tax havens are consequences of government meddling.
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  127. The USA has little on South Africa.
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  128. Are you willing to pay higher living costs to support that bigger minimum wage?
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  129. Which employers would that be? Mom-and-pop shops barely breaking even?
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  130. Put down the Marxist Kool-Aid.
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  131. Nah. He was bad. It's just that Stalin was worse.
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  132. <addicted to means-testing.> Rightfully so. Able-bodied people who choose not to work should not get anything. It's unfair and unjust to have those who work be forced to give up their hard-earned bread to those who don't work by choice.
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  133. Who knew that communists were racists?
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  134. Where?
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  135. <A lot of these problems would disappear if the people were actually in charge> Actually no. The people are every bit as corrupt and greedy as the governments they elect. People only vote for what they think they can personally benefit from.
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  136. Then be a boss. It's not the boss's fault all a worker know how to do is take orders and is too scared to take risks.
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  137. How so? They make their money off of royalties and rent as the franchises are independently owned. If you have a problem with the wages, that's something you're going to have to take up with the managers and the state government.
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  138. Not completely, but agreed.
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  139. Yet the system crashed as it wasn't sustainable. Never mind that it wasn't particularly efficient and most of the revenues went toward the military, propping up client states and vanity projects just to convince impressionable outsiders that communism >>>>>>> capitalism.
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  140. All of whom are are kept afloat by oil, foreign migrant labor as the locals are too lazy and coddled to work, and US military protection.
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  141. So? I think it's a good thing. It encourages people to take what they have to pay for more seriously.
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  142. That just defeats the purpose of universal basic income by imposing conditions.
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  143. But the wages in India are like 30 cents.
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  144. No it won't.
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  145. Because no one expect government officials and the well-connected would have anything.
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  146. No. Not everyone can be middle class let alone live a middle-class lifestyle. <Would this lead to a more powerful economy?> <I'm very curious, let's say governments take compete control of all resources (sanitation , mining, farming ect) and made automation illegal In factories and farms to maximize employment. All citizens can now afford to Live a middle class lifestyle and buy things and be a part the economy.> No. It will be a short-lived experience like Venezuela post-Chavez.
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  147. And how has that worked out for Venezuela so far?
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  148. No it isn't.
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