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Leaders like Castro and Mao had good intentions in trying to evenly distribute wealth across their people when taking control and implementing communist governments. In theory, the idea is to eliminate the extreme poverty by putting everyone on a similar paycheck distributed by the government and remove class systems. All for one and one for all, as they say.
Unfortunately, when you remove profit motive, you remove incentive from the economy and breed corruption where the money is - the government. Wealth and poverty are necessary to drive competition and innovation. But - it is within our reach to dramatically eliminate poverty in terms of food around the world, which would cost countries like ours a lot of money, but is the surest way to bring nations filled with disease and famine up to a reasonable standard of living. That would be something...
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Oft expectation fails...
and most oft there Where most it promises
- Shakespeare, W.
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