• folaht@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    That doesn’t work. It ends up with a populace smuggling goods, black markets and foreign influence.

    Furthermore, underlings who do have money will start rebellions demanding secession.

    Unless the designer is a foreign influencer from a more powerful country, which can only be China. But national leaders who put puppet presidents into offices have a tendency to want their puppets to be very loyal and friendly towards them.

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        4 days ago

        I had to read my own post ten times to figure out if I was replying to the right person.

        I meant to say that “If it’s by design, then that design won’t work”.
        I was nitpicking here.

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          You seem to be describing polish soviet europes smuggling in of goods during shortages and the black market around.

          Of course strikes work, we’d be working 7 days a week if they didnt, your grandstanding about ‘foreign influence’ makes you sound like you’re posting from a US airbase lol…

          Dont strike you dirty proles, the chinamen might steal your elections!

          Give me a break kid.

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      9 days ago

      Historically, two labor strategies have been the most effective in rapid change: a- striking to deny output of goods and services, b- violence.

      You definitely don’t want b. A is a compromise.