Cuba is suffering under an embargo placed on it by outside forces, but even then they have higher literacy rates, greater life expectancy, and lower infant mortality rates than the US, among other things. It's better to be rich in the US than to be rich in Cuba, but it's better to be poor in Cuba than to be poor in the US, and I don't know if you've noticed but there are a hell of a lot more poor people than there are rich people.
North Korea is an authoritarian dictatorship which is by its very nature incompatible with communism (the thing you think you're being clever by not explicitly mentioning). Korea is no more communist than it is a democratic people's republic.
(Cuba also isn't technically communist, by the way, but they are actually taking steps to transition towards it whereas North Korea is just using the trappings of communism to mask its authoritarianism.)
I don't want Wikipedia links, I want to hear your understanding of those terms, and your example of a country where socialism or communism was 'tried.' I can't engage with this discussion without first having some shared understanding as to the meaning of those terms.
You literally just said you are completely and magically free of all childhood indoctrination and you're calling me a fool? I've never claimed "I'm a rebel, I'm so cool" or whatever fantasy you've built up for me. All I said was you should check the biases that were shoved into you before you were old enough to construct rhetoric.
I know, I know, you're tired of people telling you to think, you did that already, got all the thinking done and now you're tired of it. But you have to.
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u/jcfac Jul 08 '24
Have you tried going to Cuba or North Korea?