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Isn't North Korea working on something like cartoon animation, a good thing?
by johnea 3y ago
Isn't North Korea working on something like cartoon animation, a good thing?
- markus_zhang 3y agoBut then they get paid. We don't want them get paid.
- evan_ 3y agoand to clarify- the "they" who gets paid is probably not the person doing the animating
- markus_zhang 3y agoYeah the majority of the $$$ probably goes to we know who.
- ses1984 3y agoMaybe, but what if it’s basically slave labor and the money goes to the regime?
- fy20 3y agoAre you describing Europe? Our taxes definitely feel like they are going to the "regime", making politicians and the wealthy richer, not the everyday worker.
- ses1984 3y agoDo European nations have concentration camps of political prisoners and their innocent family members, today? Taxes go to the regime, anywhere, that’s the definition of taxes. You get benefits from them like infrastructure. Payment for animation from North Korea goes 100% to Kim so he can fund things like his harem.
- micromacrofoot 3y agoIt depends on who is defining "good"
- loudmax 3y agoThese aren't North Korean entrepreneurs building businesses in a free market. Any enterprise in North Korea should be understood as slave labor to provide support for a criminal regime.
- johnea 3y agoIsn't that the same thing as working for a publicly traded company?
- npteljes 3y agoIt can be part of a long-term strategy, like sowing the seeds of progress through the cultural effect that the animation itself, and the trade relations have. Or, it can just further fuel the oppressive system that they have, helping them keeping up longer, delaying its inevitable collapse.