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@Engineer The USSR had fine growth starting from a Tsarist regime barely budding its Industrial revolution.

China has steadily been the country with one of the highest year-to-year economic growth since adopting "Market Socialism" back in the 90s.

You don't always need completely free markets to get growth. It just needs to be more free than it was.

As far as property rights go, it was one of the first things to have been removed from the Weimar Constitution when the Nazis took over.

@Stahesh Inflation rate is a measure of how fast prices go up or down. While companies decide the price of their products and services, it usually reacts to market conditions.

However the bulk of the inflation in Western countries comes from government spending habits: if taxes aren't enough, they will print additional currency to make up for lack of budget. Once the gov spends that money, it hits the market at once with more money supply and at a fixed demand, hence the devaluation.

@Engineer I have a hard time believing this: Hitler was very much against privatization of industries as he saw it as a tool to fulfill Jewish interest.

They did learn a few lessons from Soviet complete collectivization of land and labor but they are 180° from Free market. Business owners had little say in what they can do, and usually had a hard time breaking even due to the vampiristic taxes they had to pay.

The State controlled the economy, but were smart enough not to centrally plan.

Another masterpiece from Antony Davies.

Don't Fear Inequality:
https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=b8soxNZzVlE

@VooDooMedic Kinder egg toys were the shit back in the early 2000s. I ended up buying my favorites I didn't get or lost during my childhood.

@ButtWorldsMan If you're going to turn yourself into a human torch, at least go on a hugging spree.