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Zero American economists predicted the USSR would have breadlines

After it happened they were like *oh sure, Milton Friedman p...
Burgundy Histrionic Stag Film
  05/21/25
do economists ever generally agree on a future prediction an...
Hateful School
  05/21/25
They all agree that communism causes breadlines now. They ev...
Burgundy Histrionic Stag Film
  05/21/25
yes, they are very good at going backwards and describing wh...
Hateful School
  05/21/25
They don't know shit about China either.
Burgundy Histrionic Stag Film
  05/21/25
The breadlines at the tail end of the USSR were caused by th...
wonderful ebony piazza
  05/21/25
Yeah it only happened one time in the history of the USSR. T...
Burgundy Histrionic Stag Film
  05/21/25
No breadlines under Stalin. If you lined up like that they w...
wonderful ebony piazza
  05/21/25
By the 1980s things were supposed to be on the up and up. Iv...
Burgundy Histrionic Stag Film
  07/18/25
it mostly caused stagnant mediocrity it was probably real...
disgusting vermilion lay
  05/21/25
It's the only reason Russia modernized in the first place. S...
Burgundy Histrionic Stag Film
  05/21/25
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Insane Turdskin
  07/18/25
USSR did a lot of amazing things, was competing directly in ...
bespoke lilac state
  07/18/25
They decoded the Mayan script almost 40 years before America...
Burgundy Histrionic Stag Film
  07/18/25


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Date: May 21st, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: Burgundy Histrionic Stag Film

After it happened they were like *oh sure, Milton Friedman predicted that" but he didn't.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728630&forum_id=2...id.#48952160)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 7:57 PM
Author: Hateful School

do economists ever generally agree on a future prediction and turn out to be right? the entire field is buoyed by the fact that there is always at least one of them right about most things but they aren't actually doing science and just making shit up so they can never agree

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728630&forum_id=2...id.#48952169)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 8:00 PM
Author: Burgundy Histrionic Stag Film

They all agree that communism causes breadlines now. They even think they predicted it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728630&forum_id=2...id.#48952175)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 8:01 PM
Author: Hateful School

yes, they are very good at going backwards and describing what happened while making up reasons but it never results in a predictive model and you end up with that Burry guy becoming famous because the entire field can't spot the biggest bubble in history

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728630&forum_id=2...id.#48952176)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 8:05 PM
Author: Burgundy Histrionic Stag Film

They don't know shit about China either.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728630&forum_id=2...id.#48952181)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 8:04 PM
Author: wonderful ebony piazza

The breadlines at the tail end of the USSR were caused by the introduction of market pricing for trucking services in an economy with no credit system. People couldn't pay truckers. Truckers wouldn't work. Good literally rotted. Soviets fixed for that by threatening death and labor camps for refusing to work but then Gorby got all civilized and stopped enforcing Soviet labor laws.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728630&forum_id=2...id.#48952179)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 8:07 PM
Author: Burgundy Histrionic Stag Film

Yeah it only happened one time in the history of the USSR. That's why it was a big deal. If communism caused breadlines, Russians would have been used to them by the 1980s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728630&forum_id=2...id.#48952182)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 8:09 PM
Author: wonderful ebony piazza

No breadlines under Stalin. If you lined up like that they would beat you within and inch of your life. You starved quietly..

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728630&forum_id=2...id.#48952184)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:14 PM
Author: Burgundy Histrionic Stag Film

By the 1980s things were supposed to be on the up and up. Ivan Drago nearly beat Rocky to death. Russia and Cuba conquered the continental USA in Red Dawn just a few years earlier. They should have made a Red Dawn 2 where Russia has breadlines and collapses while occupying Kansas.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728630&forum_id=2...id.#49113278)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 8:17 PM
Author: disgusting vermilion lay

it mostly caused stagnant mediocrity

it was probably really chill if you're a midwit loser, redditor heaven

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728630&forum_id=2...id.#48952207)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: Burgundy Histrionic Stag Film

It's the only reason Russia modernized in the first place. Sorry your birdshit history teachers didn't know that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728630&forum_id=2...id.#48952210)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:36 PM
Author: Insane Turdskin



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728630&forum_id=2...id.#49113344)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:42 PM
Author: bespoke lilac state

USSR did a lot of amazing things, was competing directly in science and tech and military. It's per capita and GINI was quite good, no one talks abt this. They pretend it was North Korea but even North Korea actually isn't that bad, USSR was a lot better. Americans are brainwashed faggots, so its difficult to even have a convo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728630&forum_id=2...id.#49113379)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: Burgundy Histrionic Stag Film

They decoded the Mayan script almost 40 years before Americans did it. We couldn't correspond with their academics at that time so no one in the U.S. knew about it until after the wall came down.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728630&forum_id=2...id.#49113486)