Profit and loss

[Teufelsdröckh]

calbert at tiac.net wrote:
> 
> Mr Weaver:
> 
> > >Profits allow one to attack poverty,
> >
> > Profits allow you to attack poverty that you have created, but even
> > then you don't have to, giving is voluntary y'understand. A-and it is
> > permissible to turn a profit - modest of course ;-) - on those
> > donations, tho of course the profits are greater from war promotion.
> 
> ....and yet, looking back on the 20th century, the greatest examples
> of "created poverty" are, by orders of magnitude
> 
> 1) the famine in the Soviet Union following Stalin's program of forced
> collectivization of agriculture.....the toll stands in the 10s of
> MILLIONS......
> 
> 2) the famine in the PRC subsequent to "the Great Leap Forward",
> again the toll in the 10s of MILLIONS
> 
> btw, note that neither Uncle Joe nor Uncle Mao missed a meal.....
> 
> we would have to follow with some examples from Africa, and last but
> not least, the great on going decline of Cuba...

The examples of Stalin and Mao warn of creating governments according to
an economic model.

The example of Cuba illustrates an industry-driven boycott. Much like
Big Oil's boycotts before WWII of non-cartel producers, Florida sugar
farmers make sure that the boycott of Cuba stays.

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Teufelsdröckh