Re:Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
by noobermin on Saturday July 30, 2016 @03:13PM
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I think the point here is as in Israel, there needs to be a system, government, and culture that makes a free market possible. In the case where such a system is corrupt or instead offloads the costs onto another group of people, such a system falls apart and you have revolution as a result.
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Re:Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
by pm90 on Saturday July 30, 2016 @04:30PM
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Exactly. While the parent comments correctly claim that many Middle-Eastern countries are technically capitalist, they do not provide a fair system where anyone with the capital can set up shop and start offering products/services. There is a large amount of bureaucratic red tape and often lack of property protections that scare away genuine capital.