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0 pointsatmosx8y ago0 comments

You start your comment with: I will answer seriously, but i must reprimand: you open up a post with a question, and your first comment already scorns and shows contempt for one of the two possible answers.

And then you go with: In communism, everyone is born poor!

Out of curiosity: Is an average kid born in Cuba poor compared to an average kid in US or Europe? I understand that living without internet access to us, is like living without oxygen, but I've heard that the happiness index in Cuba is pretty compared to US/EU. Their healthcare system for example, seems to be orders of magnitudes better than the US or the NHS (UK).

ps. I'm taking Cuba and not former USSR countries on purpose. I believe that Cuba had a more successful version of communism.

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conanbatt8y ago

Granted, the phrase has some comedic exaggeration, but in our worldly experience, communism may have reduced some extreme inequality(emphasis on may, since the ruling class in communism is always pretty rich), but it did so by decimating the middle class.

For all the comparisons of Cuba and other capitalist countries i will make one argument that encompasses all the other: "See how people vote with their feet". How many people move TO cuba and how many people move out OF cuba.

That should be enough to measure the relative expectation and standard of living of Cuba and the US.

fooza8y ago

Yeah. And I hear north korea is the greatest country in the world.

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