> We know it's a shady country

You think it is - in reality, it's not really so shady. He probably picked the name not because it's true but because it's believable.

I wouldn't even think of this as being shady. If you're a firm based in a country where it's politically/legally ok to work with people in North Korea, and someone (from a country where it isn't) employs you to do some work, and doesn't contractually require you to do the work yourself, and you know you can get someone else to do it for much cheaper, but still meet all the requirements... why wouldn't you do that? It's not shady at all; it's just... smart. The client is getting the product for the agreed-upon price. They're effectively paying for your ability to work with people that they can't work with.

> Nice job trying to cover it up though. Virgil!

Yikes, can you please edit out personal swipes from your comments to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are? We're here for curious conversation. It's also best to avoid denunciatory rhetoric, not because things don't deserve denouncing, but because it degrades internet discussion quality badly.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.

> It is full of bullshitters, thieves, and good people who are misled by their government which plays on their hopes and fucks them up the ass while they protest their hearts away every year

I'm not entirely sure what country you're talking about here. Is it Romania? United States? Maybe United Kingdom?

> Nope, it is. I am from there and can certainly tell you that it's true.

You must live in one heck of a bubble, I'm a Romanian and definitely wouldn't describe it as "shady".

While you clearly have some issues with the way certain things are going inside the country, the generalizations you're making are definitely exaggerated.

This comment could describe basically any country in the world.

No, not really.

People just don't know the Eastern Bloc all that well. It is shady as the OP says. It's a mentality and a way of life that the more polite-class citizens of those countries there are trying to unwind and return to some bastion of civility, but it's hard when the modern-day mafia runs the governments and does it's best to stay in power.

At least here, the corruption isn't as obvious. Over there, they wag their tail right in your face and ask you what are you going to do about it.

People emigrate from these countries to say, North America or Western Europe or UK in search of a better life.

I'm not saying that all countries are equally corrupt. I'm saying that the angry citizen's rant at the government, in broad-brush terms, is pretty much equally applicable anywhere.

> cartoons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSU1IJk70i4

I didn't even have to click on the link. I knew exactly what you were referring to.

which proves that the problem with the world is not awareness to the problems. :(

There is rich irony in exploiting a country that rejects global capitalism while believing that "the shadow hands of globally sanctioned socialist labor" is socialist at all.

>The shadow hands of globally sanctioned socialist labor are all around us

what a weird smear. who in their right mind really believes DPRK is the realization of any kind of socialism? i guess the nazis were socialists too then.

Yes indeed. They were national socialists.

it's doublespeak - they weren't socialists

>The term "National Socialism" arose out of attempts to create a nationalist redefinition of "socialism", as an alternative to both Marxist international socialism and free market capitalism. Nazism rejected the Marxist concepts of class conflict and universal equality, opposed cosmopolitan internationalism, and sought to convince all parts of the new German society to subordinate their personal interests to the "common good", accepting political interests as the main priority of economic organization,[9] which tended to match the general outlook of collectivism or communitarianism rather than economic socialism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

I'm at -1 downvotes on the above comment. There should be some kind of system that reverses this kind of denialism on the bastion of intellectualism we call hn.