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2021-07-14 China-Japan-Koreas

Facing chronic shortfalls, North Korea tells citizens to start supplying their own food

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-07-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Abolish the national government, and let the villages form their own governments. Divide the land equally among the people, but let them sell their shares to other people within the same village. Allow them to work for wages. Get back to a pre-industrial farming economy.

Abandon the cities for now, let the city dwellers move to the country and work for wages. Disband the army and give every adult a rifle - there are probably enough to go around.

In other words, abandon communism.

Posted by KBK 2021-07-14 00:25|| 2021-07-14 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Long pig?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-14 01:35|| 2021-07-14 01:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Pyongyang in talks with the Soylent Corporation?

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-14 06:37|| 2021-07-14 06:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Nah, they'll scratch out a garden and the State will confiscate the food: Army First/Juche

Posted by Frank G 2021-07-14 07:23|| 2021-07-14 07:23|| Front Page Top

#5 I think they have had their own gardens anyway. And like #4 says they army seizes some of them too or they would also starve.

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-07-14 10:44|| 2021-07-14 10:44|| Front Page Top

#6 No worries, all the CHinese Red Cross food aid will be coming over the border any moment, that's what allies are for....oh wait, they actually don't give a shit!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-07-14 12:38|| 2021-07-14 12:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Agriculture in the Soviet Union(Wiki): "Hedrick Smith wrote in The Russians (1976) that, according to Soviet statistics, one fourth of the value of agricultural production in 1973 was produced on the private plots peasants were allowed (2% of the whole arable land).[33] In the 1980s, 3% of the land was in private plots which produced more than a quarter of the total agricultural output.[34] i.e. private plots produced somewhere around 1600% and 1100% as much as common ownership plots in 1973 and 1980. Soviet figures claimed that the Soviets produced 20–25% as much as the U.S. per farmer in the 1980s.[35]"

The North Korean apparatchiks could wake up and do something sensible... No, Not Enough Juche™! Whatever they do will probably make things worse.

Posted by magpie 2021-07-14 18:49|| 2021-07-14 18:49|| Front Page Top

#8 I thought they always supplied their own grass

Posted by Chris 2021-07-14 20:31|| 2021-07-14 20:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe this is a good thing. I have this twisted vision of the future where Pudge becomes the Godfather of North Korea and leads his people into the modern world, sort of like Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore, but more corpulent. Stranger things have happened. Remind yourself that Dennis Rodman is already part of this story.

Side Note: The world owes the NKor people a debt of gratitude for taking part in a grand economic experiment. Experiments on humans have gotten a bad rap (especially since that business with the Soylent Corporation) so it isn't often you can divide them up into groups and do A/B testing.

In this case, we took two identical populations and gave one communism and the other a market economy. South Korean won hands down on pretty much any axis you can think of. Sorry about all the famine and thank you for your participation.

Posted by SteveS 2021-07-14 20:56|| 2021-07-14 20:56|| Front Page Top

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