Message from @Maksim

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2020-03-07 07:38:00 UTC  

I am asking where the coincidence comes from

2020-03-07 07:38:47 UTC  

How did other nations cause the 1933 famine, and the 1978-1982 famine, and why did they choose as the time precisely the moment the collectivizations started?

2020-03-07 07:39:09 UTC  

Let's look at North Korea for example

2020-03-07 07:39:22 UTC  

Economically, they were ahead of South Korea at the start.

2020-03-07 07:39:25 UTC  

I already gave my examples

2020-03-07 07:39:36 UTC  

We don't have any data on North Korea

2020-03-07 07:39:44 UTC  

Or nothing very reliable

2020-03-07 07:39:53 UTC  

Unfortunately I do not know enough about those famines to make an educated response

2020-03-07 07:40:00 UTC  

We know that their economy was stronger

2020-03-07 07:40:02 UTC  

At the start

2020-03-07 07:40:04 UTC  

Those are the two most important famines in the entire narrative

2020-03-07 07:40:11 UTC  

Until an earthquake hit

2020-03-07 07:40:14 UTC  

The Holodomor, and the Great Famine

2020-03-07 07:40:15 UTC  

Followed by a famine

2020-03-07 07:40:22 UTC  

Foreign Aid was denied

2020-03-07 07:40:42 UTC  

All you are saying is that famines can be caused by foreign intervention

2020-03-07 07:41:04 UTC  

I haven't studied the Holodomor I am ashamed to say as a Ukrainian

2020-03-07 07:41:27 UTC  

I do know some basics but nothing in depth

2020-03-07 07:41:52 UTC  

The Soviets didn't like the rich Kulaks I believe

2020-03-07 07:42:00 UTC  

And forced collectivization

2020-03-07 07:42:29 UTC  

Production fell, and rations were inplemented to smooth the shock

2020-03-07 07:42:50 UTC  

And Stalin executed the statisticians who reported Ukraine's population had fallen

2020-03-07 07:42:58 UTC  

That's about all I know though.

2020-03-07 07:43:20 UTC  

Something like that, yes

2020-03-07 07:44:24 UTC  

I am not a communist, I support the existence of private industry to make it clear

2020-03-07 07:44:47 UTC  

I just assert that they should not act against the interests of the nation

2020-03-07 07:44:50 UTC  

Such as outsourcing

2020-03-07 07:45:35 UTC  

Increase buying power

2020-03-07 07:46:29 UTC  

Ideally I want the economy to return to a state of power where a single person can work and support a family of 4, own 2 cars in a good house with still enough money for simple luxuries and vacation

2020-03-07 07:46:36 UTC  

As was possible in the 1950's

2020-03-07 07:47:04 UTC  

@AH-64 Is this wrong?

2020-03-07 07:47:29 UTC  

Your endgoal isn't, your methods are

2020-03-07 07:48:19 UTC  

Back then, the economy was freer than it is now

2020-03-07 07:48:34 UTC  

The top tax rate was also 90%

2020-03-07 07:48:40 UTC  

Something I imagine you're opposed to

2020-03-07 07:50:12 UTC  

How would you completely stop outsourcing, and allow a single person to work and support such a life

2020-03-07 07:50:29 UTC  

While keeping the population safe, educated, and healthy

2020-03-07 07:52:12 UTC  

That was the top marginal tax rate. It only applied to the dollars earned above 300,000 dollars or something. It wasn't the total tax rate for people in the highest income bracket.

2020-03-07 07:52:38 UTC  

You used to be able to raise a family with a good standard of living on a single working class wage in America

2020-03-07 07:53:58 UTC  

I am no expert in the US economy at the time, I only know from Germany that its market was definitely freer. With us, it was the same however, in 1950 you could raise a family with a working class wage, now you need two parents who are academicians. Here, taxes are to blame for that. You already pay 50% total taxes if your income is above 5k, which is a higher middle class income

2020-03-07 07:54:46 UTC  

A steeply progressive tax rate id argue is needed