[kiryandil]

Remember to put the potato in THE FRONT of your Dnepr assault Speedo, not THE BACK.

[Freedom4US]

Monetary inflation can’t be remedied by price controls. It is really sad that nobody learns from history and societies go through these insanities over and over.

The classic example is probably the French during their Revolution. They decreed that a loaf of bread could cost no more than X, which they decided would mean bread for everyone. Well the cost of flour and yeast was more than that. So there wasn’t any bread to be had at all.

The French, the Soviet Union, etc, was proof, Socialism cannot be made to work, even at the point of a gun and a pile of skulls. But this time will be different!

[The Duke]

"“If you know from the history of the Soviet Union, when people don’t have motivation, you cannot really force them to do work very well,”

AKA .. "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work."

[Yardstick]

Potato Racquet

The Russian answer to Pickle Ball?

[econjack]

There is not one incidence in the history of Man where price controls worked, yet we still find idiots who think they are smart enough to outsmart the market. The hubris of thinking you can solve millions of simultaneous equations per second is on a scale that can't even be measured. Just like welding the lid shut on a pressure cooker and turning up the heat looks like it's working for a short period of time, eventually parts of the vessel traveling at mach speeds will find you and only then might you realize what a bad idea controls were.

[catnipman]

“The limits, launched by Lukashenko in October 2022 as he aimed to keep prices low and stave off inflation, instead made potatoes far less profitable for farmers to produce.”

no one could have EVER predicted such an outcome, not even in a million years, even with will all the best AIs grinding away at Warp 11 speed ...

[Allegra]