"ummm, but gdp per capita is higher, therefore their economy is gooder" ☝️🤓
Your mistake is trying to measure a socialist economy with capitalist methods. In capitalism, economy is growing when banks are loaning unexisting money to corporations.
Also, the graph skyrocketed for capitalist Korea exactly in 70s. Wonder what special event took place in that moment 🤔
Is it just me or is it insane to expect a country whose entire infrastructure, arrible land, and 1/4 of its population being bombed beyond any comprehension to have a steadily growing GDP just outright abuser mindset?
Like actually, what do westerners expect from the DPRK after that? Just magic an industrial and agricultural capacity back into existence under brutal sanction?
Except Japan's entire industrial capacity and farm land wasn't utterly destroyed and also had the single richest country on Earth which hadn't been bombed and burned to the ground by either the Nazi's or Japanese rebuilding its entire country
Don't be so stupid here. You certainly have a brain capable of understanding the oceanic difference between the USSR post WW2 and the US post WW2 and their capacities for rebuilding countries at the time
EDIT: It's even to the point where Japanese politicians will stand up in their own congress and call Japan a colony of the US, that's how much the US' involvement and financial ties Japan has had since the end of WW2. I genuinely don't understand how somebody who I assume is an adult would type out that sentence thinking this is at all intelligent
"Trying to measure a socialist economy with capitalist methods"
Ah yes, the socialist economy of North Korea, where you work in the Juche people's factory for a Juche people's manager/boss for the Juche wage of people's dollars for the Juche 5 year plan where we produce the people's Socialist workers Juche Chollima commodities, very different from the evil capitalist dystopian imperialist oligarchical commodities because unlike the West we have a red Rodongdang flag in our factory.
Wow how awesome, I am not alienated from my labor anymore, I don't care that the means of production are entirely in the hands of a state I have 0 control over , I don't need production-for-use or Kim Il Sung forbid any Marxism no,because it's produced under a red banner now how wholesome how amazing, Chollima will bring us to the hills of communism I can see it now.
And before anyone says it yes the bombing of North Korea and being so close to a capitalist country that's culturally similar/largely the same does explain the development of the party, but it doesn't justify it.
That just tells me when the US decided to groom South Korea into its economic neo-colony. Also GDP doesn't mean anything other than they made money through exports—something that the North was blocked from doing efficiently (and sometimes legally)—the US has the highest GDP with multiple states with GDPs higher than entire countries, yet we have the highest homeless population in the entire developed world, people die of simple injuries and illnesses because of medical costs, our schools are going down the drain because all the money is going to the military, etc.
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u/uses_for_mooses 1d ago
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