Hey remember that beauty Queen Alicia Machado from Venezuela? The one who said President Trump "fat shamed" her? Well, all her time in the buffet line stateside makes a lot more sense now.
Socialism/Communism. Absolutely no incentives to do anything except let the state do it for you.
...komanizm
Ironic that the question comes up as a question after the USSR, S. Africa and other socialist dictatorships....
I guess the average Venezuelan citoyen would rather be starving, than starving, fatigued, robbed and beaten up.
Feel the Bern...
Famine is always local
When the article is projected to America, the masses in LA can be starved out even though there are massive agricultural lands close by. That is true for pretty much all American cities.
The civil war will be won by starving the cities
Free societies are cooperative. I make shoes and trade them for your bread. You trade your bread to farmers for their raw materials. (Money, today, is the medium of exchange.)
Socialism, where farms are, ironically, organized into “cooperatives,” are societies based on force. The medium of exchange is force, not money. The starvation is a symptom that the society itself has failed. Nobody can suddenly start farming and expect to trade for money or shoes. The society will come and take whatever you have; thus the rich, productive land lies fallow. Who would waste the energy to farm when they will lose their product to the takers?
In America we have small amounts of socialism and the society mostly works. A small amount of socialism is like having an aching knee. It is painful, but you can live with it. When, however, socialism reaches a typing point it’s like all the ailments of old age inflicted on your body at once. You can’t live with that much pain.
Only because you cannot eat it.
With all the lush farmland in the USA why are 43 million people on food stamps?
The same reason Ukrainians starved in the 30’s...
Hey remember that beauty Queen Alicia Machado from Venezuela? The one who said President Trump "fat shamed" her? Well, all her time in the buffet line stateside makes a lot more sense now.
And Atlas is shrugging. Escobar needs to sell his farm and immigrate somewhere else.
People Create Wealth
Government Creates Poverty
Hey, it really sucks, but at least no one is making any money off it. Except the appropriators.
universal wage and price controls + government monopoly = economic chaos
economic chaos + central planning + tyranny + forced labor + aristocratic privilege for leaders = shortages
shortages + economic chaos = socialist hellhole
Another of how big government operates it’s always the same answer FAIL.
When visiting Venezuela in the 70’s I learned south Venezuela , the agricultural lands, were farmed by Europeans who migrated there over the past century.
When visiting Venezuela in the 70’s I learned south Venezuela , the agricultural lands, were farmed by Europeans who migrated there over the past century.
The farmers pretend to work while the govt. pretends to pay them.
Imagine if Zhou Enlai--who was far more a pragmatist than Mao--had ascended to power in 1964. China would have evolved more along the Soviet Union lines by the late 1960's, and it's possible that the opening of China with the outside world could have happened by the late 1960's, and great economic reforms that Deng Xiaopeng implemented in 1979-1980 would have happeened 6-7 years earlier. And there would be no Gang of Four, since Mao's wife would be out of the picture by the middle 1960's. And the Cultural Revolution would likely not have happened, either.