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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: 0.001s | 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]▶
the_af ◴[06 Jan 22 21:50 UTC] No.29830761[source]▶
> A list of socialist or communist governments now:

> [...] Argentina [...]

No.

Source: I live in Argentina and it's neither socialist nor communist. It's currently center-left capitalist. Our immediately preceding government was center-right capitalist. In the 70s we had far-right capitalist military dictatorship (Chicago boys influenced economy wise, School of the Americas trained).

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germandiago ◴[07 Jan 22 00:51 UTC] No.29833120[source]▶
Argentina is almost socialist in taxing terms. And 21 million of people are subsidized. I do not see a capitalist system subsidizing 21 million people. That is not capitalism. Call it something else.
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malermeister ◴[07 Jan 22 01:14 UTC] No.29833327[source]▶
Isn't it interesting how you're saying a capitalist system you don't like "isn't capitalism", but you complain when others do the same with socialist systems?
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1. dang ◴[09 Jan 22 22:06 UTC] No.29867792[source]▶
It looks like your account has been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's a line at which we start banning accounts, regardless of what their favored ideology actually is, because this way of using HN is destructive of what the site is supposed to be for (intellectual curiosity). I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please use the site as intended, that would be good.

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