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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RMF who wrote (862345)6/4/2015 6:18:42 PM
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In the early 30's everybody knew about food lines and farm foreclosures so all this fantasy stuff from Russia probably sounded pretty good.

Not all of it was fantasy stuff. The life of the average Russian had improved quite a bit after the revolution. And, of all of the industrialized, or in the case of Russia - industrializing, countries in the world only Russia was unaffected by the Great Depression. In many very real ways our system had failed and spectacularly so. And theirs hadn't.

Any economic system has a crippling weakness. If it is guarded against, sooner or later the sociopaths take it over, run it for their sole benefit and the system collapses. That is what happened in the 1920s. That is what happened to the Soviet Union. And that is what happened in the early 21st century culminating in the Great Bellyflop. The biggest difference is we bailed out the sociopaths and they will do it again. Because they don't care what happens to everyone else.
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