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Hym, nobody reads this kinda long parts of text on the interwebs!
Cuban free healthcare.
Those people work for wages below any reasonable levels. Goods are rationalised. If your country had income tax of let's say 95% I guess everyone would have "free" healthcare and everyone would be poor.
Thank you, I'd rather earn real money, pay insurance and have good healthcare this way. Why? Because I value personal freedom. That's what Cubans don't have. A choice.Another thing that is common to all communism 'editions' is that when everything belongs to everyone, it belongs to noone and nobody cares. People work very unefficiently, produce flawed goods, because they don't care. The state owned companies' don't have to bring profit. There's no competition because there's nothing to win. Workers steal tools and materials. This is how communism failed in e. Europe. It was rotting from the inside. It was turning people into lazy thieves. Nothing really worked.
People were unmotivated, they knew no matter how hard they worked they'd get shit. Hence corruption, a way to make some profit. And it was everywhere.Somebody said in rich western countries there is corruption too. There is, but only at very high levels. Regular people don't see it daily and are rather decent. In communist countries every cop, every official, every doctor ('free healthcare' in reality) waits for your bribe. Corruption becomes natural for regular people.