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That's not true. I just checked on it, and they used to be subsidized, these days not so much.

A lot of them are hybrid models with some capitalism, mixed with the socialism. So I guess it sort of confirms your opinion that these things don't work when pure?

But they do seem to have found a successful hybrid model.



If you mix enough gasoline with water, you can get your car to run on water, too!

Capitalism can do well despite being taxed to support socialism. The other way around doesn't work.

The Soviets starved until they allowed farmers to have their own private plots of farmland. Collective farms => famine.


You’re going really hard on loving capitalism

The problem is that capitalism mathematically ensures inequality which subverts the concept of survival because it creates extreme imbalances in agency.

What results is that capitalism must always use as reference a forever unchanged “state of nature” mythology which never existed.

Capitalists view themselves as a different species than modern anatomical humans, more enlightened etc… but I have seen firsthand that millionaires billionaires and even “middle class” people have less consciousness than those who have very little capital.

Capital enables alienation by letting the capitalist offload “life” to people who do it for them, leaving them nothing but Vice. It always corrupts




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