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Women can’t legally drive in North Korea, but they can earn a lot by converting their private vehicles to taxis.

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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So communists that they rely on private contractors to save money and steal wages like the worst capitalists

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tankies keep telling me you have to go through capitalism to get to communism. This somehow does not apply to Western nations, but it does apply to China, which has more billionaires than the U.S., and probably North Korea too if they find this out. Along with their saying, "see? North Korea has eliminated sexual discrimination!"

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

And I've never got a good answer to "why can we trust the state capitalists to not just be capitalists?" The answer generally seems to be "they have correct socialist theory" which is literally idealism, which is not something tankies like to hear as long as they understand enough theory to know that idealism is not a good theory of change.