Afaik this happened with every single instance of a communist country. Communism seems like a pretty good idea on the surface, but then why does it always become autocratic?
Afaik this happened with every single instance of a communist country. Communism seems like a pretty good idea on the surface, but then why does it always become autocratic?
Cuba exists and has better rankings than the US in higher education, and life expectancy.
Neither of those things are true.
According to Wikipedia USA life expectancy is 79.3, Cuba is 78.1
Ranking higher education is much trickier but pretty much every list I could find puts USA right at the top. American higher education institutions are world class and remains probably America’s biggest competitive advantage (i.e. brain drain).
Also Cuba probably isn’t the best example to rebut the “why does communism always turn into a dictatorship” question.
I’ve been to Cuba several times. You can call it communism, but it’s not. For Christ’s sake the Cubans were doing Air BnB during Darpanet, when they didn’t even have phones. I’ve only stayed in a hotel there once, my 1st time there 30 years ago.
They live under a hybrid system of dictatorship, capitalism, communism.
Get out of the basement and go see some of these places. Your book smarts aren’t.