Meet my friend, a radical leftist. Please see the timestamps. The first part of this discussion is about the differences in mindset between people who support different economic systems. The second is about socialism and communism and my friend’s thesis about why they haven’t been successful. PART 1 [...]
00:00 Intro. 01:55 Fiscal conservatism vs social justice 03:14 Economic programs to solve social issues are EXPENSIVE 05:40 Another approach to looking at the situation, blaming neocolonialism. 10:42 Our inability to learn from history, and shunning of responsibility. 12:03 Thoughts about democracy [...]
What Happened to Jamaica? Democratic Socialism and A Tale of Two Islands Did you know that, in 1971, the United States to Jamaica currency exchange rate was $1 USD to $0.77 JMD, nine years after Jamaica's independence from Britain? In 1992, it was $1 USD to $22 JMD. In 2019, at the time of writing, [...]
