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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by terminalshort on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:01PM (#46481497)
Better some people are poor than everybody is poor, which tends to be the result of putting leftists in charge.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by TheOtherHobbes on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:34PM (#46481848)
How large is your ideal value of "some"?
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by jacquesm on Sunday January 04, 2026 @08:10AM (#46487592)
Typically this translates into everybody below me on the social ladder.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by seanmcdirmid on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:40PM (#46482463)
The upper class Cubans in Florida want their plantations and slaves in Cuba back, is that a reasonable tradeoff so some people aren't poor?
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by forty on Saturday January 03, 2026 @06:05PM (#46482671)
> Better some people are poor than everybody is poor

Well, technically it's only better for the few that are not poor, for all of the others, it's the same. It's even probably worse because rich people in a country with mostly poor people tend to be very efficient with capturing most of the value produced by the others.