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That reminds me of an old (and highly illegal at the time) Soviet joke: it’s 1917, the Russian revolution is getting into its full swing. An old man is lying on
by 0xbear 9y ago
That reminds me of an old (and highly illegal at the time) Soviet joke: it’s 1917, the Russian revolution is getting into its full swing. An old man is lying on a couch reading a newspaper. His grandson runs into a room, and excitedly proclaims: “Grandfather, Bolsheviks have seized the means of production, and there will be no rich people anymore”. To which the old man replies: “Funny, the revolutionaries of my generation fought so there’d be no _poor_ people anymore”.
- kaybe 9y agoSimilar to what a Chinese teacher abroad told me: We tried even distribution and found that everyone being poor sucks, so now we let some people get rich first then actually have something to even out. Very optimistic but seems to be the official reading of the plan.
- 0xbear 9y agoThose folks have been through the communist grinder too. It’s only the doe-eyed idealists here in the US who think they’ll do it right this time, just like their Russian counterparts 100 years ago. 100M deaths later we’re back to square one.