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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Replying to @OhNoIts2016 @KEEMSTAR and
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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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
Why supply someone if they can't pay for it. P & G isn't a charity, at least not yet. The point is that liberal Norway, with rule of law, property rights and a strong democracy has a $1tn sovereign wealth fund, Venezuela has hyperinflation, mass emigration and starvation.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
I’m not asking for “free toilet paper,” I’m asking why the *same companies* that sold them OTHER paper products REFUSED to sell them toilet paper. By the way, Norway is a bit more “socialist” than Venezuela is lol. Norway has had full 30% public sector employment, PLUS co-ops!
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Ahhhh get the employment stat now! Norway's government can pay its workers, the Venezuelan government can't, except for he police and military who it had better pay or be lined up against a wall!
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
I mean, the reason’s irrelevant, no? I’m not making an argument about whose policies are more efficient in a capitalist society. Obviously Norway’s are. I’m just saying that *in effect,* they’re about equally “socialist,” with Norway being moreso.
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