Go to Pongyang and praise South Korea....we'll wait
The scarcity is not in the production outside of demand items (electricity, water, etc) but in distribution. Things like bad infrastructure, war, corruption are the true hinderance
Unless you can create a society that is completely satisfied with fulfilling their basic needs and nothing more, you will have scarcity at some point
No they didn't. They made everyone but a small group of leaders poor, and redefined poverty
You say that, until we all find out much too late that him and Darth Cheney were playing us all along
You do realize poor and destitute people existed long before modern capitalism right. Medieval europe, and the ancient world was full of them, along with many socialist countries
My understanding is that the biggest threat is when one of those sneaking into your car and start crawling on people while driving. I think we can both agree, people make for terrible drivers when achiant spider is crawling on them
You actually create a communist revolution by having a leftist demagogue convince a group of bored trust fund babies that they're lives would be paradise if they only fundamentally change the government. The same demagogue goes to elite keyholders in the old government and promises power un the new government if they change sides. The revolution happens. Scores are settled, and many of those same trust fund babies are put against the wall, because the demagogue wants absolute political power, not a utopia for his supporters. The country is weakened, while political and civil rights are curtailed for the greater good
No, not a whimper, but a meme
And a strongman dictator usually beats socialism