• MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    Sure, it was for spices, definitely not for money.

    It was a different time. We don’t do that anymore!

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      10 months ago

      Don’t get high off your own supply… Still true, we import and export more as we consume.

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        10 months ago

        Isn’t Marx the one that never worked nor had any money his entire life? Yup!

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        10 months ago

        It’s good to read Marx books, but history books are better. That way you can see examples of how socialism always fails due to human corruption.