{"id":42400,"date":"2018-03-16T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42400"},"modified":"2018-02-23T11:16:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T16:16:32","slug":"qotd-achieving-socialist-nirvana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/03\/16\/qotd-achieving-socialist-nirvana\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Achieving socialist nirvana"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The evidence is in. Again. Socialism and government statism is the only way to eliminate income inequality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-venezuela-food\/venezuelans-report-big-weight-losses-in-2017-as-hunger-hits-idUSKCN1G52HA\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As reported in Reuters<\/a>, a 3 university study of conditions in Venezuela has shown that <strong>90% of citizens now live in poverty<\/strong>. But socialism can only achieve so much. The other 10% must suffer in abject affluence so that the 90% can have income equality.<\/p>\n<p>That in Venezuela income equality necessitates poverty is a design feature of the policy and not a fault.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela has also demonstrated that socialism can not only eliminate income inequality, it can also eliminate obesity. There was no need to deploying a sugar tax, when the income equalization policies achieved the same ends. You see, Venezuelans reported <strong>losing an average of 11 kilograms in 2017<\/strong>. This was on top of <strong>losing an average of 8 kilograms in 2016<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Viva Venezuela. Viva Chavez. Viva Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I Am Spartacus&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/catallaxyfiles.com\/2018\/02\/23\/nirvana-income-equality-and-a-truly-fair-society\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Nirvana \u2013 income equality and a truly fair society&#8221;, <em>Catallaxy Files<\/em><\/a>, 2018-02-23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evidence is in. Again. Socialism and government statism is the only way to eliminate income inequality. As reported in Reuters, a 3 university study of conditions in Venezuela has shown that 90% of citizens now live in poverty. But socialism can only achieve so much. The other 10% must suffer in abject affluence so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,25,84,41],"tags":[150,91,1020,76,398],"class_list":["post-42400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-economics","category-government","category-quotations","tag-obesity","tag-poverty","tag-progressives","tag-socialism","tag-venezuela"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-b1S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42401,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42400\/revisions\/42401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}