Cuba. Russia. Venezuela. Cambodia. Every time someone tries to run an economy from the top down, the same thing happens. Shelves go empty. Builders stop building. The guy at the top gets stronger while everyone else gets hungrier. It is not bad luck. It is the blueprint.
The argument is always the same too: it was not real socialism, the wrong people were in charge, next time will be different. But it is never different. When you kill the price signal, nobody knows what anything is worth. When you cap the profit, nobody has a reason to build. The second and third order effects are not bugs. They are the inevitable result of fighting human nature with a government plan.
Every Single Time walks through the pattern with a banjo and an 808, because the absurdity deserves both. Every black market on the planet is proof that the system fights what people actually are. You cannot legislate away the drive to trade, to hustle, to build something better. Every single time they try, it hits the floor.
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