Re: Awfully quiet in here...

On Sat, 5 Apr 2025, Scott Dorsey wrote:

In article <vsq7j0$184js$2@dont-email.me>, Titus G  <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 11/11/24 08:46, William Hyde wrote:

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Like-minded people in those areas would also hire thugs to beast up the
indigent and send them to your area.?? Eventually the thugs would realize
that it would be less work just to beat you up and take your money.?? And
you'd have a government again.
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Perhaps Haiti would be the most suitable capitalist option for D?

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Yes, Haiti is a post-capitalist, post-fascist nation.  A small number of

Actually, that's incorrect. Haiti is a prime example of what happens when you go from proto-socialism, and the leaders then decide to screw the people.

people pumped all the money out of the economy and left it without industry
and with most of the famland destroyed.  Most people were subsistance farmers
but then were pushed by the government into growing cash crops for export
as quickly as possible.  Once the topsoil was all gone, people could no longer
live as subsistence farmers and they all moved to the city where they didn't
do so much better.
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Haiti is one of the better warnings about what happens when a small number
of people run the government with the intention of getting wealthier.  In
the seventies there were a lot of poor people and a few compounds of rich
people... the rich people used helicopters to visit one another because they
didn't want to spend money to build roads.  Now all the money is gone and
there aren't any roads.  All the rich people moved to Florida.
--scott
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