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Zero American economists predicted the USSR would have breadlines

After it happened they were like *oh sure, Milton Friedman p...
mind-boggling mischievous fanboi reading party
  05/21/25
do economists ever generally agree on a future prediction an...
cracking haunted graveyard
  05/21/25
They all agree that communism causes breadlines now. They ev...
mind-boggling mischievous fanboi reading party
  05/21/25
yes, they are very good at going backwards and describing wh...
cracking haunted graveyard
  05/21/25
They don't know shit about China either.
mind-boggling mischievous fanboi reading party
  05/21/25
The breadlines at the tail end of the USSR were caused by th...
thirsty wrinkle
  05/21/25
Yeah it only happened one time in the history of the USSR. T...
mind-boggling mischievous fanboi reading party
  05/21/25
No breadlines under Stalin. If you lined up like that they w...
thirsty wrinkle
  05/21/25
it mostly caused stagnant mediocrity it was probably real...
Indecent Adventurous Rigor Parlor
  05/21/25
It's the only reason Russia modernized in the first place. S...
mind-boggling mischievous fanboi reading party
  05/21/25


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Date: May 21st, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: mind-boggling mischievous fanboi reading party

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

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Date: May 21st, 2025 7:57 PM
Author: cracking haunted graveyard

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: mind-boggling mischievous fanboi reading party

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: cracking haunted graveyard

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: mind-boggling mischievous fanboi reading party

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: thirsty wrinkle

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: mind-boggling mischievous fanboi reading party

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: thirsty wrinkle

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: May 21st, 2025 8:17 PM
Author: Indecent Adventurous Rigor Parlor

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: mind-boggling mischievous fanboi reading party

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)