Sarah Paine
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They believe it because it's right.
And there's a whole problem with that about labor theories of value and things.
It turns out there are things called services that are also valuable and valuable.
So the basic theory that he's implementing is incorrect.
And it takes the communists a little while.
Some of them haven't figured it out, but it takes them a little while to figure out their parts that don't work.
But there's a whole other piece to him.
Think about our own world.
How much expertise does any individual have?
It's amazing.
The man reunited a continent and he did all those things.
And then to expect him to then run a peacetime economy is crazy, but of course he wants to do it.
So he stays there.
Or think about like in Britain, Winston Churchill, great wartime leader, but he's booted out of office right after that war.
If you think about different capabilities of people.
So don't expect one individual to do everything.
So that's a whole other problem.
So when Mao's running stuff from afar, this is a country with how many people?
It hadn't hit a billion then, but it's hundreds of millions.
And it's been shattered by...