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Like ok, we get it, billionaires/trillionaires are exploiting people for their own gain, wealth ia extremely concentrated, it becomes exponentially harder to lift yourself out of poverty the poorer you become (Matthew effect) and so on and so forth. Yeah, we've all heard of that. But then, after we'd established all of that, there is another question that arises: what do we propose as an alternative to current system and don't we empirically see that countries who tried to implement communist economy failed badly? China ia not really communism is it? And North Korea's bad economy can't really be fully explained by sanctions or other disadvantages can it?

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