• LibreHans@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Their elites steal everything

    You think the western elites don’t? It’s just slower…

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      3 months ago

      The trick is not to steal faster than the economy can produce. It’s like organic, fair trade, sustainable kleptocracy.

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      3 months ago

      Western elites do steal, true. But to no where near the same extent. We’d have trillionaires in the west if they stole as much as Russian oligarchs do.