Because that seems to be what you're doing.

I havn't read any of it yet and I have no idea what they define by "socialist" but judging by this -

it's stupid because just pointing out a single example is not as useful of a metric as comparing aggregated data, furthermore i could do the same and point out specific famines that occured under capitalism

Deny it, please. I needed a laugh.

capitalism does seem better

High come countries are only capitalist

weird, almost like poor countries are more likely to become socialist or something 🤔

o, it’s actually because socialism makes countries poorer

no it doesn't

No, it's almost like socialist countries are more likely to become poor

why did eastern bloc countries grow faster than comparable capitalist countries

on average

How can you possibly look at this table and come to the conclusion that socialism is better?

I actually just popped in to ask a really dumb question, but yeah... socialism seems to never help the poor, the working poor or the working class.

it usually does

how so?

Russia asked the US to come over and analyze what went wrong with their economy after the USSR fell, and it was found that they were operating something like at half the economic strength.

Eastern block countries grow faster because they have more room to grow

source mera

And you can hardly consider them to be socialism anyway

i've heard sargon say that shit multiple times and he has never provided a source

baraban that makes no sense

That makes perfect sense

why would they have more room to grow compared to countries that had the same gdp per capita on average

History and countries are a pretty good source... go sell socialism to Venezauila.

venezuela isn't socialist

Because they aren't as advence, but they are catching up

what's your dumb question

how are they not as advanced baraban

where's your source that the eastern bloc was more prosperous than western europe?

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000497165.pdf

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i'm talking about comparing eastern bloc countries to a selection of capitalist countries that fell within the eastern bloc's gdp per capita range in 1950

They are obviously less advanced

And the gap was bigger

they weren't less advanced they were the same

but eastern bloc countries grew faster

I"ve walked in a bit late, what exactly are you refering to? I Just wanted to ask a dumb question.

No they weren't

notice all the stuff in that document that got better as the soviet union reformed and edged closer and closer to capitalism.

whats your dumb question tho