Fleeing Venezuela
persuasion.community
persuasion.community
Personally, I think what we're seeing is akin to the first internal combustion engine. It was dirty, low power, fuel hungry, extremely noisy, inefficient, and vibrated so hard no one ever thought you'd be able to attach anything to it. ...and it also made zero people money.
...but eventually it revolutionized transportation.
I'm inclined to agree, but increasingly these "morons" are more numerous and more likely to occupy positions of power and authority.
> I was under the impression in liberal democracy even up until maybe 2015 treating an individual as an example of all individuals from that group was considered reprehensible for obvious reasons, i.e. you will end up saying racist or sexist things.
Yeah, me too.
> The more general rule I would like back because everyone is being forced on left or right have it assumed that they occupy absurd positions.
I'm having a hard time parsing this sentence, could you rephrase/clarify?
For what it’s worth we have the same amount of morons just the Internet has given them means to organise and communicate and people like Steve Bannon to weave in a bit of ethnic-nationalism into the minds of the public.
That seems concerning enough on its own, but that property ("means to organize and communicate") has knock-on effects: those morons become even more extreme and they come to occupy positions of power and authority in even greater numbers.
Once upon a time you had millions of village idiots whose views were moderated by their community and the talking heads on TV, and they were typically blue-collar, uneducated, and had no real power or authority. Now because of the ability to communicate with each other, they develop echo chambers that radicalize their viewpoints. On top of that, they organize, such that the administer universities, overwhelm newsrooms, and lead DEI departments in every major company in the country.
I used to come here for tech discussions and maybe some startup insight.
Now every day there's a post that devolves into qanon, trumpists, leftists bickering.
I guess every site goes to the dogs eventually.
How does a country ever get back on a positive trajectory after such a catastrophe?
Also check out this video on hyperinflation in Venezuela: https://youtu.be/ah9i3R9pRpg
Finally, it's worth seeing how things look on the ground. For example, check out this bit on the subway: https://youtu.be/jN5LZR4ejkg?t=20m
Also the power outages mentioned - they should prove that crypto won't help...
My goodness, he better not convert Bitcoin to cash there. Colombia is by no means much safer than Venezuela, ever and in particular since about 2 months.
Few people remember that not too long ago Colombians were seeking refuge in Venezuela.
He should use an online exchange if he can provide KYC. Something like in person exchange in Colombia is playing Russian/Colombian roulette.
Maybe he has family he can trust with, but yeah. In Colombia, wrong street and someone will rob you at gunpoint for a phone, even if there is not Bitcoin on it.
I always find it odd when people speak of Venezuela never seem to talk about the failures of Socialism. They seem to blame the failures on violence or authoritarian regimes. But how are you supposed to "seize the means of production" without authoritarianism? The author of this article mentions Marxism:
> The Venezuelan government calls itself Marxist, too, but also seems to spend more time dreaming up ways to make a buck than on anything like a revolution.
I would love to hear more of their opinions on Marxism. But this article seemed more about a journey than why the journey was necessary.
The scandinavian countries are by global standards quite socialist, with social democratic and socialist parties often in power, most of those have no interest in seizing the means of production.