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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: 0.253s | 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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908B64B197 ◴[06 Jan 22 20:46 UTC] No.29829874[source]▶
It's the reason it's harder to work in a resort or operate a taxi in Cuba than it is to become a "doctor".

The former has access to foreign currency with a real value. The later can hope to maybe get an exit visa (the government will loan it's "doctors" to foreign regimes in exchange for real currencies).

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reaperducer ◴[06 Jan 22 21:37 UTC] No.29830608[source]▶
I'm curious why you put the word doctor in quotation marks, as if to imply they are substandard.

It was always my understanding that while Cuba lacks a lot of things that many other countries take for granted, that the quality of its doctors was outstanding. I even remember seeing this mentioned in the newspaper at the beginning of the pandemic.

Is this not true, or no longer true? Have I been under a false impression for all this time?

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1. Aunche ◴[07 Jan 22 00:26 UTC] No.29832843[source]▶
I visited Cuba with a doctor and we took a couple of drunk tourists to the hospital. I also met another doctor who went to a medical conference there. Overall, their conclusion was that Cuban doctors are legit, but their medical system is very primitive.