Message from @Zerker

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2018-10-24 11:48:46 UTC  

During the last 20 years oil has been peak high

2018-10-24 11:49:25 UTC  

So the income should've been high enough that even us interference wouldn't matter

2018-10-24 11:49:36 UTC  

its not about oil prices

2018-10-24 11:49:37 UTC  

Wait, that's my next point chill out

2018-10-24 11:49:41 UTC  

It is

It's $85 now c'mon Venezuela

2018-10-24 11:50:18 UTC  

Because with the mid 2000s prices it would've been enough to survive any criais

START TRYING

2018-10-24 11:50:59 UTC  

The thing is they can't even try, oil infrastructure is (at least) 20 y.o. With barely any maintenance

2018-10-24 11:51:19 UTC  

Because the oil company was statized around 2002

2018-10-24 11:51:37 UTC  

And they kicked practically all qualified workera

2018-10-24 11:51:42 UTC  

Workers*

2018-10-24 11:51:54 UTC  

exactly

2018-10-24 11:52:53 UTC  

And about stockpiling. The only ones caught stockpiling were government owned

2018-10-24 11:54:08 UTC  

The cherry on top of the cake is that gasoline is basically free.

2018-10-24 11:54:47 UTC  

And they are implementing a system where party members will still get it for free, and everyone else has to pay international price

2018-10-24 11:55:03 UTC  

alright?

2018-10-24 11:55:11 UTC  

There's no possible way to survive that way

2018-10-24 11:55:35 UTC  

Now extrapolate that to a whole country

2018-10-24 11:56:10 UTC  

ok, and why would I do that?

2018-10-24 11:56:30 UTC  

Cause the same people are running the fkin country

2018-10-24 11:56:56 UTC  

you cant just extrapolate things like that to a whole country

2018-10-24 11:57:03 UTC  

there are thousands of factors at play here

2018-10-24 11:57:06 UTC  

millions, even

2018-10-24 11:58:54 UTC  

OK, then why did it fail?

2018-10-24 11:59:16 UTC  

It wasn't US intervention, stockpiling or the drop of oil prices

2018-10-24 11:59:43 UTC  

it was a million things dude, I dont really know what to tell you

2018-10-24 12:00:11 UTC  

I can tell you

2018-10-24 12:00:12 UTC  

suggesting it was just socialism is intellectually lazy

2018-10-24 12:01:13 UTC  

Of course it wasn't only socialism

2018-10-24 12:01:26 UTC  

But socialism led to all the circumstances that made it fail

2018-10-24 12:01:32 UTC  

how?

2018-10-24 12:02:07 UTC  

Cmon man

2018-10-24 12:02:50 UTC  

Statized corruption, destroying the private economy and people's earning capabilities

2018-10-24 12:02:50 UTC  

explain to me exact socialist policy

2018-10-24 12:03:08 UTC  

the economy is still like 90% private

2018-10-24 12:03:20 UTC  

Dude

2018-10-24 12:03:25 UTC  

There's no economy

2018-10-24 12:04:08 UTC  

There's only 1 company "keeping" things up