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[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both are bad systems. What are you trying to accomplish here?

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You pointed out North Korea's prison population as a counter to their superior urban planning to the USA, but they also have a lower prison population.

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The difference being there is a modicum of due process in the US.

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting assertion, care to substantiate it?

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not really in the business of sourcing things to users from an instance that is basically a Sealioning factory.

Ultimately, I will get told I don't understand economics until I've read all three volumes of Das Kapital. Ironically, it's no different that libertarians saying you don't understand economics unless you've read the works of Milton Friedman, or more importantly, Ayn Rand.