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I filmed this on my balcony in Argentina Buenos Aires.

i got mutherfucking scared.

How does a 35 years old adult get that scared?.

Well this is me on 2016, leaving my country Venezuela, forever.

My beautiful country, which had a SOLID economy from the 50's to the 70's, destroyed after 17 years of communism, the so called revolution left professionals graduated in the university earning 12$usd per month as salary, taxi drivers making 50 usd dollars at best, no food in the super markets, most drug stores with almost no medicines, a currency exchange control that left Venezuela no access to dollars for more than 10 years, censonrship in the media, countless street riots, inflation on more than 30% (unofficial numbers with 2 years delay, meaning that the central bank was not showing the real numbers) that I would assume were higher than 100% inflation, extreme insecurity violence and to make it all worse, 55% to 70% of the poblation was with the comunist goverment, or at least the votes on presidential elections showed that.

One day I was on my apartment window and I saw how a riot of communist people was trying to enter the building complex, destroying the gate, that day I knew I had to leave.

I do know this is a very difficult post to write. There are things that are wrong in this world, and one of the most problematic aspects of things that are wrong are:

1.- Ignorance.

from latin ignōrantia, means, lacking knowledge/lack of understanding.

When we talk about communism, people seem to lack the KNOWLEDGE, that communism has destroyed several countries. Several economies. For example Cuba and Venezuela.

The problem with ignorance, is that people CHOOSE, to be ignorant, How? well, knowledge is there, it's everywhere but still, people don't wanna read, learn and therefore UNDERSTAND.

When we talk about communism, people seem to lack the UNDERSTANDING that under communism there is no chase for efficiency, enterprises owned by the state tend to be less efficient, since there is no incentive for capital gain, people tend to become careless, lazy under the idea the government will protect them no matter what.

THE EASIEST example i can give to someone is this:

Imagine you save for 5 years and with a lot of effort you build your first business, you open your first store, with so many sleepless nights, 18 hours shifts (since you cant afford employees), imagine the place, ultra clean, neat, its your little baby child you protect it with love. That's is how a business person manages his business under a capitalism-competition environment.

Then, communism arrives at the place, expropíates that business. What happens? the government assigns someone with the fixed salary, whose performance doesn't affect his payment, he will always earn the same even if he's mad, angry, moody or even comes to work drunk. what happens with that business?

who cares the most? someone who is HURT when the business is not going well, who worries, who lives and breathes the business or someone paid by the government?

this little example is BARELY ONE reason why communism destroys countries and economies.

If you wanna know more about this, there are hundreds and hundreds of examples, just to name ONE you can check the differences between East Germany (communist) and West Germany (capitalist) once the Berlin wall came down.

2.- Ideology.

From French idéologie, is a doctrine/body of beliefs/principles that belong to an individual or group.

The problem with Ideology is that it can BLIND people or even entirely change people perception.

just to give more sense ill add some definitions by Terry Eagleton:

• a body of ideas characteristic of a particular social group or class.
• systematically distorted communication.
• socially necessary illusion
• the confusion of linguistic and phenomenal reality

Whats the problem with communism ideology? one of its biggest problems is that it looks SO PRETTY in the books, and sounds amazing in the speech, that people when faced with it, falls in love with the idea of a big strong state to protect the weak, equality, punishment for the rich, wait, what? why punishment for the rich?

ill leave he punishment for the rich for later.

Then what happens is, communism when applied to reality, its just extremely utopic, usually the government gets greedy, usually becomes a dictatorship, first the state becomes strong, then kills the productive machine, to later take control of the media, then does what it promised to everyone, takes EVERYONE TO THE SAME LEVEL. But sadly not making the lower class and middle class rich, no, the communist state makes everyone poor.

examples of blinded people influenced by ideology are on the millions ill bring one here:

The image reads:

"Opposition, ill make it clear, without turkey, no c.l.a.p, no water, no oil, without a damn, we, the people will continue supporting NICOLAS MADURO."

to explain it to people who are not from Venezuela, clap is a box of food the government rarely gives you (since there is scarcity in all food chains and supermarkets)

So this person claims that even starving, with no basic services like electricity or water, they will still support the president, the very same president who has made everyone poor, who has created an exodus (more than 4 million) of Venezuelans all around the world, to escape the horrible crisis.

how a problem THIS BIG begins?

it always beggings because people what change.

change is something a LOT of people want in their lives, but usually, people don't want to make the HUGE and IMMENSE effort you gotta do to achieve that change.

For example, wealth, economic wealth. Around the top 1% on the world's population has the 40% of the money (almost the half), so that leaves the 99% of world's population with only 60% of the money, and let me tell you, that 60%, ALMOST THE OTHER HALF, is not fairly distributed either.

let's show it better with an image:

there you saw it, 0.7% has ALMOST THE HALF OF THE MONEY.
How anyone on the earth will consider this FAIR?
Well, after almost 10 years of studying success, business, markets I have found that:

It requires hard work (LOTS)

to have economic success, let alone wealth, and something even more real is that people say they want to have success but they don't wanna work for it.

So that is one of the main reasons people want change; its easier that someone comes and do the homework for you. Its ugly, it's messy, people don't wanna hear it, but its the truth.

That is exactly the point when punishment for the rich comes.

a tremendous amount of people prefer to blame others than themselves, so if they are not in the rich group of the population, who is to blame?

instead of doing the hard work, research, years of effort, failure, then again more years of hard work, people prefer a goverment that makes everything easier for them, which has been proven to fail, at least in 99% of the comunist goverments, in the other 1% you have china, which has prevailed with a socialist goverment, but I put all my money that is because of their culture, a culture SO different from the rest that when they go on a strike, instead staying home sick, they produce more and work extra hard so the company overproduces and then it has inmense losses, that different they are from us.

Is it 1% good enough for the humanity to try a communist or socialist government ever again?

(in the image above you see a homeless person sleeping outside a PSUV abandoned office, PSUV stands for Venezuelan united socialist party)

What is the solution?

As I said before people is hungry for change, to get what? equality, why equality? because there is a HUGE differential in wealth distribution, (that's only one of the problems) buy equality rarely is what we need. We are all different with different capabilities, desires, strengths, we all make efforts in a different level than others, what we need is SOMETHING ELSE.

We need something that levels everyone to the same level, we need something that makes justice when things are wrong.

The only thing that can level you, to someone that has an advantage on you is:

Education

The solution is and will always be education. But not a college education. Education from history, what has happened before us, education from growth, the one you get when you fail and start over, in order to achieve, education from family values, education by example.

Education will lead us to the truth and truth will set us free.

Thanks for reading

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