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: 1.327s | 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]▶

>>29829418 #

Communism is taxes and government regulation gone mad

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thechao ◴[06 Jan 22 20:38 UTC] No.29829740[source]▶

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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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1. int_19h ◴[07 Jan 22 04:17 UTC] No.29834758[source]▶

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> Communism is the ownership of the means of production by the workers.

Even according to the communists, that's not true. Socialism is the common ownership of the means of production. Communism is the hypothetical post-scarcity classless society into which socialism is supposed to evolve eventually.

No "communist" country that ever existed actually claimed to be communist; they claimed to be building communism. Which, as the popular Soviet joke went, is always on the horizon - which is an imaginary line that recedes as you try to advance to it.

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