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
2. Exactly the same thing as happened in Zimbabwe.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
What? No it’s not lol. Zimbabwe went from a food exporter to a food importer. Venezuela went from an impoverished, oil-trading nation dependent on foreign capital to... an impoverished, oil-trading nation dependent on foreign capital.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
Zimbabwe went from a food exporter with a successful economy to a bankrupt state incapable of feeding itself. Venezuela also had farms! You can't grow food without seed, fertilizer or people. It is a tragedy inflicted by a government on its people and it is still happening.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Venezuela STILL has farms. It has never had *nearly* enough farms to feed its people directly.
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The government has forced people to work the farms, the farmers can't afford to pay their workers because of price controls and hyperinflation. To a lesser degree a similar phenomenon occurred in the late Roman empire. Price controls, devalued currency and economic failure.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Well, I guess that can happen when you attempt socialist reformism and then die in the middle of it
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