27 Robberies in One Day, Same Street - Brazil under Socialism
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Socialism is the Big Lie of the twentieth century. While it promised prosperity, equality, and security, it delivered poverty, misery, and tyranny. Equality was achieved only in the sense that everyone was equal in his or her misery. In the same way that a Ponzi scheme or chain letter initially succeeds but eventually collapses, socialism may show early signs of success. But any accomplishments quickly fade as the fundamental deficiencies of central planning emerge. It is the initial illusion of success that gives government intervention its pernicious, seductive appeal. In the long run, socialism has always proven to be a formula for tyranny and misery. A pyramid scheme is ultimately unsustainable because it is based on faulty principles. Likewise, collectivism is unsustainable in the long run because it is a flawed theory. Socialism does not work because it is not consistent with fundamental principles of human behavior. The failure of socialism in countries around the world can be traced to one critical defect: it is a system that ignores incentives. In a capitalist economy, incentives are of the utmost importance. Market prices, the profit-and-loss system of accounting, and private property rights provide an efficient, interrelated system of incentives to guide and direct economic behavior. Capitalism is based on the theory that incentives matter! Under socialism, incentives either play a minimal role or are ignored totally. A centrally planned economy without market prices or profits, where property is owned by the state, is a system without an effective incentive mechanism to direct economic activity. By failing to emphasize incentives, socialism is a theory inconsistent with human nature and is therefore doomed to fail. Socialism is based on the theory that incentives don’t matter! In a radio debate several months ago with a Marxist professor from the University of Minnesota, I pointed out the obvious failures of socialism around the world in Cuba, Eastern Europe, and China. At the time of our debate, Haitian refugees were risking their lives trying to get to Florida in homemade boats. Why was it, I asked him, that people were fleeing Haiti and traveling almost 500 miles by ocean to get to the “evil capitalist empire” when they were only 50 miles from the “workers’ paradise” of Cuba? The Marxist admitted that many “socialist” countries around the world were failing. However, according to him, the reason for failure is not that socialism is deficient, but that the socialist economies are not practicing “pure” socialism. The perfect version of socialism would work; it is just the imperfect socialism that doesn’t work. Marxists like to compare a theoretically perfect version of socialism with practical, imperfect capitalism which allows them to claim that socialism is superior to capitalism. If perfection really were an available option, the choice of economic and political systems would be irrelevant. In a world with perfect beings and infinite abundance, any economic or political system–socialism, capitalism, fascism, or communism–would work perfectly. However, the choice of economic and political institutions is crucial in an imperfect universe with imperfect beings and limited resources. In a world of scarcity it is essential for an economic system to be based on a clear incentive structure to promote economic efficiency. The real choice we face is between imperfect capitalism and imperfect socialism. Given that choice, the evidence of history overwhelmingly favors capitalism as the greatest wealth-producing economic system available. The strength of capitalism can be attributed to an incentive structure based upon the three Ps: (1) prices determined by market forces, (2) a profit-and-loss system of accounting and (3) private property rights. The failure of socialism can be traced to its neglect of these three incentive-enhancing components. ~Mark J. Perry is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus. O socialismo é a Grande Mentira do século XX. Embora prometesse a prosperidade, a igualdade e a segurança, só proporcionou pobreza, penúria e tirania. A igualdade foi alcançada apenas no sentido de que todos eram iguais em sua penúria. Do mesmo modo que um esquema de pirâmide ou as cartas de uma corrente inicialmente têm êxito mas acabam fracassando, o socialismo pode mostrar sinais iniciais de sucesso. Porém, qualquer realização rapidamente desaparece assim que as deficiências fundamentais do planejamento central aparecem. É a ilusão inicial de sucesso que confere à intervenção governamental seu apelo pernicioso, sedutor. A longo prazo, o socialismo sempre demonstrou ser uma fórmula para a tirania e para a penúria.
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Back in the day the Policiais Especiais would take these kids for a one way ride out to the jungle.
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Predominantly blacks? Sad. I would carry at last one or two knives in a subculture area like that. The first pull of my bag, pow, knife to the face..
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I'm starting to see a color trend with the thieves.
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Everyone is black, ofc.....
I feel sorry for u, brazil. -
Good place for a sniper, No? Just asking. Rio de Janeiro is a piece of shit these days. DO NOT GO THERE!
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Only black thieves? No white ones? Interesting. I would carry a knife on me at all times there, the first sign of someone messing with my wallet, one right to the throat, and keep walking, just like these little shits do.
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Some of it is funny though. But wrong nonetheless.
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welcome to the jungle
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they are all niggers too
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the strength of capitalism? hahaha!
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Look at how all these pussies just take it, or stand there like Sheep.
And this guy with the camera, how about a black curtain and a pellet gun instead next time? -
You silly. Socialism has absolutely nothing to do with these robberies
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Instead of record you should deal with it
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All you see is coming to America as we peddle closer and closer to a Socialist State. It's the kids who know nothing but what their Socialist minded friends and professors tell them. It's a tragedy and lack of education.
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Blacks have the morals, brains and breeding of cockroaches, everywhere they go.
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Notice it's always darker skinned people stealing from lighter skinned people.
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is all over the planet. my city has the same problem, the only way I was able to stop breaking s by installing cameras..... most of the time police and trouble makes split profits that's why is hard to get ready of problem.
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Brazil is a dangerous place
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The one guy had the right idea, just shoot them until they don't think it's worth it any more.
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What a scumbag country.
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