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Very good read. I have a soft-spot for Venezuela and it's collapse. Its fascinating watching a country make the same mistakes as dozens of countries before them have. History repeats and repeats, even though we have trivial access to it today through the internet. I always find it odd when people speak of Venezuela never seem to talk about the failures of Socialism. They seem to blame the failures on violence or auth…
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I've probably seen half a dozen "debates" in the last year in which American Leftists were arguing with actual Venezuelans about whether the situation in Venezuela was real or Western Propaganda (TM).
How did you systematically come to the conclusion that those "debates" shouldn't be had? Which straw broke the camel's back? Is it because Carlos on the internet , who writes for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Americas Quarterly, told you so? How do we take your guidelines and judgement and form it into a framework of rational thought where it then becomes generally applicable to the general population…
Wow, I'm surprised that cryptocurrency actually helped him. I can see he cannot make a bank account since he is an illegal alien, but he could still hold and transfer value with the power of the blockchain. Smart move, since he pretty much got robbed of any valuable he had with him. One of the few positive crypto-related news I have heard lately!
He wrote an earlier article (2019) in the NYT on crypto helping there https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/venezuela-...
Remember when everyone in Venezuela was starving and all the American Leftists were trying to defend Maduro and calling one a fascist on Twitter for criticizing Maduro’s regime?
In my town, the leftists still put up "Viva Chavez" banners on their balconies.
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He wrote an earlier article (2019) in the NYT on crypto helping there https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/venezuela-...
Do you have a non paywall version of this?
Very good read. I have a soft-spot for Venezuela and it's collapse. Its fascinating watching a country make the same mistakes as dozens of countries before them have. History repeats and repeats, even though we have trivial access to it today through the internet. I always find it odd when people speak of Venezuela never seem to talk about the failures of Socialism. They seem to blame the failures on violence or auth…
The scandinavian countries are by global standards quite socialist, with social democratic and socialist parties often in power, most of those have no interest in seizing the means of production.
Wow, I'm surprised that cryptocurrency actually helped him. I can see he cannot make a bank account since he is an illegal alien, but he could still hold and transfer value with the power of the blockchain. Smart move, since he pretty much got robbed of any valuable he had with him. One of the few positive crypto-related news I have heard lately!
Personally, I think what we're seeing is akin to the first internal combustion engine. It was dirty, low power, fuel hungry, extremely noisy, inefficient, and vibrated so hard no one ever thought you'd be able to attach anything to it. ...and it also made zero people money.
...but eventually it revolutionized transportation.