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Corruption.
by hungryhobbit 4mo ago
Corruption.
- throwitaway222 4mo ago[flagged]
- ceejayoz 4mo agoDefinitely doesn't happen under capitalism, right? Remind me again what the current President's net worth has done recently?
- throwitaway222 4mo agoI'm 100% fine with moving almost all government payments to a system where elected officials need to sign off before a payment is made. As long as he/she is willing to be responsible for the fraud that takes place. And I will walk Trump to jail when this happens, just as I walk the names I posted to jail too. And no, in PURE capitalism, it doesn't happen. It's just that we have too much socialist shit. In pure capitalism, every dollar that is lost to fraud is going to be looked at by investors and scrutinized. And besides it will have only affected the company that did it, not the country and not the voters and tax payers.
- ceejayoz 4mo ago> And no, in PURE capitalism, it doesn't happen. Just like PURE communism!
- throwitaway222 4mo agoPure Communism - as in marxism, the default is Elites make choices on where to allocate funding. Nowhere in that manifest is a checks and balances system. So yes, in pure communism, it is a direction to fraud. Not Capitalism.
- ceejayoz 4mo agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/whoosh/ https://www.reddit.com/r/whoosh/
- throwitaway222 4mo agoOk ok thank you for the levity, I'm a bit autistic with this stuff.
- brightbeige 4mo agoAt least your reply wasn’t written by AI
- cs702 4mo agoObviously, but $240B is a lot of money for a country with only 9M households, so, around $27K/household. It's an "accomplishment" of sorts to blow up in smoke that much money per household, with nothing to show for it. How the heck did they do that?
- 55555 4mo ago1. Dictator gets loans for his country 2. Dictator puts the money in his Swiss bank account 3. Government is overthrown 4. The populace has to pay off the debt Perhaps him being in custody will lead to some of the money being found and returned.
- seanmcdirmid 4mo agoIsn’t that how private equity works?
- joenot443 4mo agoI don't think there's a Swiss bank account in the world with room for $240b. There's no doubt Maduro enjoyed some taste of the froth, but this is a silly oversimplification.
- ErneX 4mo agoCorruption at every level of government. Everybody was getting a piece of it. Add to that mismanagement, stupid subsidies. Plus they had a huge oil windfall during the early Chavez years. All that money is gone, I wish it was just the money that was borrowed from abroad. They also spent billions to influence the elections of the other countries of the region. Chavez was also giving away oil for free in exchange of political support abroad. He even gave free oil for the buses of London because the mayor at the time was in good relations or something.
- nwah1 4mo agoLook up the lifestyle of Hugo Chavez's daughter, or the family of Tareck El Aissami, or the Narconephews affair, or the Cartel of the Suns.