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Tips to grow your North Korean Startup

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207 points jimhi | 2 comments | 06 Jan 22 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.587s | source
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germandiago ◴[06 Jan 22 20:17 UTC] No.29829418[source]▶
This is the sad truth of places like Cuba or North Korea. Everything is forbidden to the point that eating is difficult. So people get corrupted and the guards, etc. just want their part.

None of those things should be illegal. It is really annoying to see how a leader class kills people of hunger and make everything illegal so that now everyone is a criminal for trying to survive.

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FredPret ◴[06 Jan 22 20:24 UTC] No.29829520[source]▶
Communism is taxes and government regulation gone mad
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thechao ◴[06 Jan 22 20:38 UTC] No.29829740[source]▶
Communism is the ownership of the means of production by the workers. You're talking about about an out-of-control regulatory state; maybe one with an authoritarian bent?
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x3iv130f ◴[06 Jan 22 21:20 UTC] No.29830352[source]▶
Your definition is the correct one for what Communism strives to be. A communal ownership of things.

It's unfortunate that such a sensible idea only becomes justification for kleptocratic oligarchies which is what the other poster was going on about.

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germandiago ◴[06 Jan 22 21:35 UTC] No.29830569[source]▶
And it will be like this until the end of the days.
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1. tacocataco ◴[06 Jan 22 22:03 UTC] No.29830957[source]▶
So you claim to know what's going to happen till the end of days?
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2. germandiago ◴[07 Jan 22 00:44 UTC] No.29833030[source]▶
For this concrete thing, yes. It is like math. There is a correlation between the level of intervention and the possibility of a tiranny that is very clear.