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Re:Is there anywhere in the world someone can just live for ... by nradov on Sunday November 05, 2023 @08:04PM (#38157582)
And all of that basically failed or at least never expanded. It is not a scalable economic model that can work in large societies.
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Re:Is there anywhere in the world someone can just live for ... by monadINtop on Thursday November 09, 2023 @04:07PM (#38211317)
>failed

How? There was no economic failure. It ended due to a political coup. After all there was the slight external complication of a proxy war considered by many to be a prelude to the defining conflict of the 20th century.

>never expanded

Apart from across an entire country you mean?

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