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Mayor of London candidate plans to use blockchain and “run UBER out of town”
- duncan_bayne 11y agoWhen will socialists simply give up? https://mises.org/library/todays-anti-capitalists-ignore-fundamental-problems-socialism https://mises.org/library/todays-anti-capitalists-ignore-fun... "So count me surprised to hear fresh calls for socialism in 2015 — if the strong economic calculation argument and astronomical death toll haven’t turned the Left off of socialism, I don’t know what will. The idea is both bankrupt and deadly in both theory and practice."
- zimpenfish 11y agoThat article is somewhat disingenuous in places - e.g., "Even today, in Cuba, the average wage is about $20 a month." Possibly more to do with the decades-long blockade by their large capitalist neighbour than them being socialist, no? "In North Korea civilians are routinely rounded up by the dozens for public execution" That's nothing to do with socialism but everything to do with being run by a crazed dictator. "When people are hungry and unhappy, the state cannot survive if the people know others are better off. The state uses propaganda, misinformation, and censorship to make an already captive citizenry even more confused and submissive." That could easily be a description of the US or the UK; neither of which you'd associate with "socialism".
- duncan_bayne 11y agoThat could easily be a description of the US or the UK; neither of which you'd associate with "socialism"." You're right on the first count, but not on the second. Both the US and the UK are strongly socialist, with policies including progressive taxation, income tax, socialised medicine, socialised education, socialised welfare (both personal and corporate), etc.