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I mean Mark Cuban started by managing a restaurant, then starting up a TV network that did well. He’s no saint but he didn’t start with a silver spoon in his mouth.

• DPRK - Dynastic Dictatorial regime. Commonly regarded as one of the poorest and lowest quality of life nations in the world. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41228181
• China - see bottom of second paragraph in description section here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_market_economy
• Laos - Not the posterboy of the benefits of communism: https://freedomhouse.org/country/laos/freedom-world/2021
• Cuba - Likewise to Laos: https://freedomhouse.org/country/cuba/freedom-world/2021

Most of the people in these countries have reduced civil rights and do not get have much say in who rules them. Perhaps that is design intent, but I much prefer a system where people are free to make most of their own life decisions free of retribution and oppression.

Of all of your examples, I think Vietnam demonstrates the advantages of a planned economy, however, Vietnam is also a socialist-capitalist hybrid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist-oriented_market_economy and their people are also significantly less free than Democratic-Socialist countries such as Sweden and Finland: https://freedomhouse.org/country/sweden/freedom-world/2021

I think you are conflating most of your examples with Dictatorships and Capitalist-Socialist hybrid regimes.

I would also hardly consider Cuba or Laos as frontiers of innovation. Just curious, do you feel that innovation is an important aspect of civilization? If so, do you think socialism and innovation can thrive without the sacrifice of one to the other?

And apparently divide by it.

As the Dark Sith Lord Mitchell McConnell once stated: “winning is the only thing that matters, winning means you have the power, winning means you get to make the rules.” (Paraphrasing)

If you want left wing policies, like Obamacare or the inflation reduction act, if you want the green new deal or Medicare for all, then the left have to be in power. Else it’s a crapshoot what we get (hey, republicans were the ones that put the D in Medicare).

It’s not that hard of a concept. Lefties will continue to do lefty things when they have the power and votes to do so.

Can we get this adjusted by CPI?

What a lifetime this man has experienced.

At least some, like Ralph Nader, regretted it. Now we have those actively seeking to spoil the vote.

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