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0 pointsWildUtah9y ago0 comments

Yes.

1. Corruption in Zimbabwe. Commercial farmers have been abandoning productive land and the country is getting poorer.

2. Communism in Cuba, Venezuela, SE Asia, and other regions over the past fifty years has ruined developing economies and made them worse. Most of those governments have fallen and things are improving again, but communism certainly has the power to ruin a country.

I'm sure there are others. Technological progress has give us a strong underlying upward trend around the world lately but sufficiently bad government can occasionally reverse the benefits of progress temporarily.

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qwrusz9y ago

Thanks, these are good examples. It's amazing how long some of these corrupt governments have stayed in power. Will be interesting to see what happens if/when there's a change in governance.

AlaskaCasey9y ago

It's easy to stay in power when you have complete control over the news and propaganda machines. Using Venezuela as an example, the country is one of the richest in the world in natural resources, but 1% of the population controls 99% of the wealth.

hx879y ago

And in most cases, communism just changes who the 1% are and leaves the distribution unchanged.

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