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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: 0.88s | 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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germandiago ◴[06 Jan 22 20:42 UTC] No.29829800[source]▶
He is talking about the history of communism or socialism towards a communism system anywhere it has been applied.

That system you define there just exists in your head. It is not possible. It is like pretending the existence of unicorns. The real one every time ends up in an authoritarian regime.

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beepbooptheory ◴[06 Jan 22 21:07 UTC] No.29830165[source]▶
I mean... if you can't believe in something that hasn't yet existed, how does anything come to be at all? Or do you deny that there is any theoretical thought behind communism at all? Is it just something people suddenly found themselves doing, and it failed and that was that?

How does someone dream of things that are better? How can you have faith in anything at all? Is not the love you feel towards your friends and family kind of like the unicorn you are describing? Do you even really feel love, if its just in your "head"?

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germandiago[dead post] ◴[06 Jan 22 21:16 UTC] No.29830306[source]▶
1. marwis ◴[07 Jan 22 00:04 UTC] No.29832596[source]▶
I think you're confusing socialism with welfare state. Many of the countries you claim to be socialist are free market capitalist democracies, only with more taxes, regulation and welfare than some would like.
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2. germandiago ◴[07 Jan 22 00:59 UTC] No.29833185[source]▶
Actually it is not a black or white thing. Actually it would be better to use the economic freedom index and check where those countries fall.

Of course, if there is no private property directly, uh, that is going to be a bad one. The welfare is expensive and it is what is basically destroying my own country in my opinion: we cannot indefinitely hold a 120% debt. Besides that, I really think that it is the welfare of the politicians and many sectors of the public workers, not from the normal people that do not fall in one of those areas.