Greed breeds corruption, corruption breeds poverty, poverty breeds lack of education, lack of education breeds stupidity.
It is the same if you replace the lack of education with despair..
A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
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Re: A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
#52Worth remembering Mexico nationalized gas, leading to gas shortages, rationing - and higher prices.
s/Mexico/Saudi Arabia/
Or, effectively, most other petro states. At the very least, the leading petroleum venture is a public-private hybrid.
Petro-state political economy is a strange, fire-breathing, beast.
Re: A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
#53Reminds me of the Zoolander gasoline fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTrxEQnPtAg
That's exactly what I was thinking when I read: “People were fighting, others laughing, and most were drunk on the fumes. They were throwing gas at each other.” It's amazing (and tragic) that people would do this in real life.
I can think of examples of "mass" misbehavior when I was younger:
- Camp councilors eating the freeze pops in the lunch freezer that were for the kids
- High schoolers eating all the candy in the vending machine when someone broke the glass
- A very large group of us went to a local restaurant. The next day we heard of a lot of people leaving without paying. (I left a lot of money before leaving, and told everyone I sat with to do the same too. Now that I'm older I'd at least track down our server and hand them money personally.)
In all cases, there's this weird thing that seemed to turn off in other peoples' heads. It's like all reason just goes away.
Re: A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Worth debunking that, as: a) Mexico nationalized gas on 1938. b) Fuel shortage and price hike actually started on 2016 when the previous right wing government deregulated the gas price, and allowed other companies to sell fuel in a free market scheme. Panic sales as everyone was expecting a price hike were the cause of fuel shortages across 2016 and 2017. While the current government has currently halted the privatiz…
It's hard for me to see PEMEX as a noble venture when price controls on gas largely act as a subsidy for the richest in Mexican society. I would blame less on "right wing deregulation" and more on a system that is rotten to the core and failing at such a basic service like providing fuel.
>It's hard for me to see PEMEX as a noble venture when price controls on gas largely act as a subsidy for the richest in Mexican society.
Kinda like every other subsidy in a capitalist society.
>I would blame less on "right wing deregulation"
And that's called being blind by ideology.
Having a pro-market stance is respectable position. Being blind to our ideology shortcommings is less than ideal but normal. Trying to rewrite history to fit our own ideology either by mistake or willingly, is being a propagandist.