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Tips to grow your North Korean Startup

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207 points jimhi | 1 comments | 06 Jan 22 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | 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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thriftwy ◴[06 Jan 22 21:14 UTC] No.29830263[source]▶
Then the USA, where the means of production are owned by workers via pension funds, is closer to communism than USSR which basically had everything state owned.
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beaconstudios ◴[06 Jan 22 22:32 UTC] No.29831410[source]▶
I know this was a snarky comment, but I have to point out - you know pensioners don't work, right?
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thriftwy ◴[06 Jan 22 23:51 UTC] No.29832456[source]▶
You know that people invest in their pensions long before they get to stop working, right? At least how it worked in mid-to-late XX century.
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1. beaconstudios ◴[07 Jan 22 00:16 UTC] No.29832740[source]▶
OK I'll give you that one - my counter-snark was not well thought out. However, I assume you realise that pension funds do not constitute a worker-controlled economy.