Balaji Srinivasan

Good is helping others without concern for yourself.

Smart is helping others while also helping yourself.

Evil is harming others.

while helping yourself.

And stupid is harming others while also harming yourself, right?

So these communists were stupid because they harmed others while also harming themselves.

They thought they were going to steal the farms, but they actually stole like a bag of donuts, right?

They got nothing, okay?

Because they had a famine.

Fine.

Point is, in this extremely negative sum activity where they envy the capitalists so much.

When they said capitalists, by the way, there's a term, great term from Grokopedia.

It's called podkulak, okay?

And I know this is getting into Russian history, but I'll explain why it's relevant.

basically, at first, the communists were saying, oh, we're only going after the top hat capitalists, right?

And then they eventually said, we're going after the kulaks, who are the farmers who are considered prosperous, and they had two cows, okay?

You know, like a wealthy farmer had two cows.

It's like a small businessman, right?

And eventually, they went from the top hat billionaires to the small businessman to, click this link I just sent you,

Great term.