didn't know they had gone from being a food exporter to a net importer. makes sense though considering how they choose leaders. everyone in charge is a loyalist bureaucrat, so there's absolutely no-one in any position of power anywhere in the entire country who got there by being good at the thing they're overseeing. most of them haven't even had a job ever that wasn't filling out party paperwork, so they have no clue and not even any experience at obtaining and making use of accurate information. that's even worse than in venezuela, where at least the loyalist idiots hired a couple of middle managers who had done some management in that industry.
they got to their high point 20 years ago thanks to some reasonable humility by the previous leadership, but those competent people have been removed over the years and just recently hit zero, so all that's left to speculate on is how long until it gets so bad the food runs out?
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tell you what, ten years isn't far away so we're going to find out.
i think people will leave just before it gets bad. that's going to be interesting to watch.
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didn't know they had gone from being a food exporter to a net importer. makes sense though considering how they choose leaders. everyone in charge is a loyalist bureaucrat, so there's absolutely no-one in any position of power anywhere in the entire country who got there by being good at the thing they're overseeing. most of them haven't even had a job ever that wasn't filling out party paperwork, so they have no clue and not even any experience at obtaining and making use of accurate information. that's even worse than in venezuela, where at least the loyalist idiots hired a couple of middle managers who had done some management in that industry.
they got to their high point 20 years ago thanks to some reasonable humility by the previous leadership, but those competent people have been removed over the years and just recently hit zero, so all that's left to speculate on is how long until it gets so bad the food runs out?
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tell you what, ten years isn't far away so we're going to find out.
i think people will leave just before it gets bad. that's going to be interesting to watch.