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SHTF in Venezuela?

Discussion in 'The Dungeon' started by ryoung57, Feb 22, 2019.

  1. ryoung57

    ryoung57 Off his meds

    IMHO, the ideal economy would be totally free of government intervention on the front end, BUT, there would be strong government support on the back end to punish those guilty of deception, theft, etc. No more of this white collar slap on the wrist bullshit. If you aren’t totally honest and acting in good faith, and your actions result in someone else’s loss/injury, you’re liable. No different than if you’d snuck into their house and stole it from their wallet.
     
  2. pickled egg

    pickled egg Tell me more

    Well done!
     
  3. Trunxgp1224

    Trunxgp1224 Well-Known Member

    Perhaps Ford built a factory in VZ because they were selling so many trucks there. Now that everybody is equal under socialism no one can afford to buy one.
     
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  4. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator


    Small country with enough income for it's inhabitants to buy more new pickups than any other country in the entire world behind the US... Says quite a bit about their economy at the time.
     
  5. ryoung57

    ryoung57 Off his meds


    It still seems out of place. There has to be a hundred things these inhabitants were also buying that would be more relevant.
     
  6. R Acree

    R Acree Banned

    By all means, go show them how it should be done.
     
  7. ryoung57

    ryoung57 Off his meds


    The meme makers?
     
  8. R Acree

    R Acree Banned

    Them or the twitter campaigners. They are what make things work these days.
     
  9. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    More relevant in a silly meme? What the hell do those words actually mean? :crackup:
     
  10. ryoung57

    ryoung57 Off his meds

    I don’t think it was intended to be silly
     
  11. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    So?
     
  12. ryoung57

    ryoung57 Off his meds


    Fuck, I don’t know. We can just drop it. I thought maybe it was something else that just happened to be the same name as a popular pickup truck.
     
  13. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    I did too at first but then in context it made sense. Granted the context is indeed silly but it is a meme.
     
  14. jrsamples

    jrsamples Banned

    Still trying to run him off, I see. :D
     
  15. SGVRider

    SGVRider Well-Known Member

    Ideals are ideal because they have nothing to do with reality. You’re asking for something that will never exist and couldn’t persist even if it did. A system without government intervention isn’t stable. It will naturally evolve to greater state involvement as non-state actors and the populace use the power of the state to exert control for their personal benefit. Even without the evolution of state power, various actors would acquire and wield state like powers for their own purposes. The history of the state and the market in the United States is proof of this. The system is currently meta-stable but is on a path toward de facto fascism.
     
  16. Phanuel

    Phanuel Well-Known Member

    What does this mean?
     
  17. SGVRider

    SGVRider Well-Known Member

    Metastable as in stable over a relatively short time span.

    Fascism as in economic fascism wherein the state and private business merge. I think Chinese crony capitalism is a good example of this. I fully expect big tech companies and the government to become one and the same.
     
  18. Fonda Dix

    Fonda Dix Well-Known Member

    I cant tell a difference between big tech and the DNC as it stands now.
     
  19. pickled egg

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  20. Phanuel

    Phanuel Well-Known Member

    I still don't understand your position.

    Who is leading us towards this "economic fascism"?
    Is big tech the only part of this equation you're concerned about?
    Is nationalism a part of this? Isolationism?
     

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