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this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2024
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I feel like the OP example was if 99% of the world's wealth (or something) was in Communist hands and they had a vested interest in excluding Australia, not that Communist China exists and does some sort of exclusion. I feel like if the imports and exports for Australia (or whatever) were similar to Cubas per person, Australia would not be as comfortable a place to live. Communist China still engages in the "Capitalist Global Economy". And, hypothetically, if the command of the global markets were in Communists hands (rather than capitalists), there might be such an embargo. But that isn't the case right now. A global communist market between nations means that there isn't a global capitalist market between nations. And if, say, Australia struggled with food and tech access under such circumstances..? idk
I feel like we're arguing about semantics and definitions of scenarios here, and how such things are judged.
PS: I'm kinda drunk right now. What's going on?
Nothing like that exists in the modern moment. Hell, the whole reason Americans hate Cuba is because this very large and wealthy island isn't Capitalist, thereby preventing the US from approaching that 99% high score.
Because Australians would be operating under an embargo that unnaturally deflates their export capacity.
And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out, what's in my head
And I, I am feeling a little peculiar