Message from @Zerker
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Because with the mid 2000s prices it would've been enough to survive any criais
START TRYING
The thing is they can't even try, oil infrastructure is (at least) 20 y.o. With barely any maintenance
Because the oil company was statized around 2002
And they kicked practically all qualified workera
Workers*
exactly
And about stockpiling. The only ones caught stockpiling were government owned
The cherry on top of the cake is that gasoline is basically free.
And they are implementing a system where party members will still get it for free, and everyone else has to pay international price
alright?
There's no possible way to survive that way
Now extrapolate that to a whole country
ok, and why would I do that?
Cause the same people are running the fkin country
you cant just extrapolate things like that to a whole country
there are thousands of factors at play here
millions, even
OK, then why did it fail?
It wasn't US intervention, stockpiling or the drop of oil prices
I can tell you
suggesting it was just socialism is intellectually lazy
Of course it wasn't only socialism
But socialism led to all the circumstances that made it fail
how?
Cmon man
Statized corruption, destroying the private economy and people's earning capabilities
explain to me exact socialist policy
the economy is still like 90% private
Dude
There's no economy
There's only 1 company "keeping" things up
Abd it barely does it
Is the only private one that has really survived
Then thing is, when you give to the "greater good" you have to take from someone
Eventually you will have no people to take from
that sounds like some axiomatic nonsense
So its evident why socialism doesn't work then?
no, what?