pudding pop wrote:
Sally Vix wrote:
Venezuela has by far the largest oil reserves in the world. Much more than the US. How can the have food lines and massive food shortages? oh ... they are a socialistic country. enough said. Socialism ALWAYS fails.
And yet some socialist countries have among the highest standards of living in the world, including 5 of the top 10 (Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Iceland and Germany).
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/democratic-socialist-countrieshttps://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/standard-of-living-by-country
Those countries aren't actually socialist countries! The article you posted even says that!!! So what are you talking about???
No true socialist/"communist" countries are anywhere even in the top half. And they only list 82, so they don't even try to rank Cuba and North Korea, for example.