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Re:Poverty-Fighting Startups by jacobush on Sunday January 14, 2018 @04:15AM (#16143440)
If you make the argument the USSR removed that overhead, it might be good to keep in mind, the tsars and the kosacks where busy removing it long before.
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Re:Poverty-Fighting Startups by loblollyboy on Sunday January 14, 2018 @06:15AM (#16143771)
How?
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Re:Poverty-Fighting Startups by jacobush on Sunday January 14, 2018 @06:34PM (#16147234)
Tsar Russia was a very centralised society. A large portion of the population were not allowed to make any decisions for themselves, because they were slaves.

Another large portion were peasants, but they reported to a master.

And the Tsar himself was bogged down in decision making about minutiae to the degree that he had little time for strategic thinking.

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