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Why South Africa Is on the Brink of Chaos

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Re: Why South Africa Is on the Brink of Chaos

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I dont know if you are being racist or trying to sarcastically point out racism against white people, but the first sentence in the article says "Corruption, government incompetence and policy paralysis", and Im guessing SAR doesnt have a white only govt.

Re: Why South Africa Is on the Brink of Chaos

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Yet another example how collectivism and socialism works. In decade or so, they will start killing farmers for "hiding" and "price gauging" food.

Meh I'm from a nation way more socialist than the USA and we have 3x the median wealth per capita (Australia).

We have a much lower mean wealth though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...

If you're one of the top 1% in America life is great. But the 99% should not be going around saying socialism sucks. That to me indicates you're gullibility and mindless support of the 1% who have waaaay too large a share of the wealth. The 99% have a lot of room to increase their wealth in America at the expense of the average by leaning a little more into socialism honestly.

Re: Why South Africa Is on the Brink of Chaos

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Yet another example how collectivism and socialism works. In decade or so, they will start killing farmers for "hiding" and "price gauging" food.

Meh I'm from a nation way more socialist than the USA and we have 3x the median wealth per capita (Australia). We have a much lower mean wealth though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe... If you're one of the top 1% in America life is great. But the 99% should not be going around saying socialism sucks. That to me indicates you're gullibility and mindless support of the 1% who have waaaay…

>Meh I'm from a nation way more socialist than the USA

Australia is not socialist, period. Its a market economy.

Re: Why South Africa Is on the Brink of Chaos

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Yet another example how collectivism and socialism works. In decade or so, they will start killing farmers for "hiding" and "price gauging" food.

Meh I'm from a nation way more socialist than the USA and we have 3x the median wealth per capita (Australia). We have a much lower mean wealth though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe... If you're one of the top 1% in America life is great. But the 99% should not be going around saying socialism sucks. That to me indicates you're gullibility and mindless support of the 1% who have waaaay…

You’re not wrong, but I’d hardly wave Australia round as being a progressive social democracy!
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