Is this what libertarians mean by “basic economics”. Step aside, Marx, this :galaxy-brain: channel will blow you out of the water!
20 millon people
If you think that’s bad, they have a video called “Is wealth inequality actually a problem?”
And the fact that it isn’t just a two second long video saying “yes” should tell you everything
It’s a predictably dumb video. Basically just tries to make the point that you need inequality to drive innovation and progress and that it’s better to have a society of great inequality where even the poor have relatively high living standards than a society where everyone is living in a cave in equal conditions. At least one of the top comments rips on it for not talking about the power imbalance it creates, especially in a supposed democracy where everyone is theoretically supposed to have an equal voice.
In May 1951, an international fact finding team from East Germany, West Germany, China, and the Netherlands stated, “The members, in the whole course of their journey, did not see one town that had not been destroyed, and there were very few undamaged villages.”
On 25 June 1951, General O’Donnell, commander of the Far Eastern Air Force Bomber Command, testified in answer to a question from Senator John C. Stennis ("…North Korea has been virtually destroyed, hasn’t it?): “Oh, yes; … I would say that the entire, almost the entire Korean Peninsula is just a terrible mess. Everything is destroyed. There is nothing standing worthy of the name … Just before the Chinese came in we were grounded. There were no more targets in Korea.”
In August 1951, war correspondent Tibor Meráy stated that he had witnessed “a complete devastation between the Yalu River and the capital.” He said that there were “no more cities in North Korea.” He added, “My impression was that I am traveling on the moon because there was only devastation—every city was a collection of chimneys.”
The bombing campaign destroyed almost every substantial building in North Korea. The war’s highest-ranking U.S. POW, U.S. Major General William F. Dean, reported that the majority of North Korean cities and villages he saw were either rubble or snow-covered wasteland. North Korean factories, schools, hospitals, and government offices were forced to move underground. In November 1950, the North Korean leadership instructed the population to build dugouts and mud huts and to dig tunnels, in order to solve the acute housing problem.
USAF General Curtis LeMay commented, “We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea, too.” Pyongyang, which saw 75 percent of its area destroyed, was so devastated that bombing was halted as there were no longer any worthy targets. By the end of the campaign, US bombers had difficulty in finding targets and were reduced to bombing footbridges or jettisoning their bombs into the sea.
“lol but your economy though”
