If you performed work, you WOULD get benefits. Businesses don’t need to be “owned.” If you worked 80 hours a week (which you should never do btw), you would make much more than employees who don’t. And no famine has ever resulted from entrepreneurial apathy.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
So you admit it's entrepreneurial? Why is famine in so common in countries without propery rights and rule of law and unknown in countries where such they exist? Zimbabwe went from a food exporter to famine as the white farmers were killed or fled as there farms were seized.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
(1/2) I admit starting a business is “entrepreneurial,” yes, that’s the definition. No famine has ever been the result of too few people starting small businesses.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @simon_enefer and
(2/3) Famine’s common all over the planet. It normally is the result of drought or pestilence. Twice in history, it also resulted from horrible policies implemented in failed collectivization attempts— both failures were due in part to ecology.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
Nonsense! Why have Venezuelans lost on average 30lbs? Mass dieting, bad weather or because the government has destroyed the economy. Have you ever meet anyone who has been their? I have and the stories are terrifying.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
“Why have Venezuelans lost on average 30lbs?” Frankly, I’d like to see the survey. I can’t find a primary source on that. Venezuela HAS gone through a market crash though, and they are having certain resources sadistically withheld from them.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
1. A hyperinflation. See Wiemar Germany. That means price rises around a million percent per year. Government seized every type of business from manufacturing to farming, massive government corruption and a complete lack of understanding as to how economies work!
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
So they “seized every type of business” but only ended up with 20% of the employees, huh? Where’d the private employers hiring the other 80% come from? Did they grow out of the ground? (also, saying “economies work” seems like a stretch)
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
If pay you bits of paper that are literally worthless are you going to come to work and starve? Or will you beg, borrow or steal to survive?
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
You’re still talking about Zimbabwe right? Venezuelan currency is devalued, but not worthless. Or wait, are you saying private sector bits of paper are worth more than public sector bits of paper? If so, why?
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1. If you have a thousand dollars, but need two thousand dollars to buy a toilet role you money isn't worthless. It just isn't worth much. Public or private currency isn't the issue. You print to much of it and it losses the value people ascribe to it.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Thing is, the toilet paper wasn’t being sold AT ALL People were still buying stuff in stores and in black markets, as well as picking stuff up from public depots. They could buy napkins, paper towels, and regular paper. Just not the toilet paper made by the same companies
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