Socialism is worse. Always.
Why should we think that one centrally controlled fiat empire is "socialist" and another is not?
It doesn't make sense to me. Are we talking about places where schools are cheap, those are worse and will fail?
Or is it places that have centrally controlled economies like the USA and China, which are worse than.. than what exactly?
Well as you know the theme of this thread is the ultimate 100% failure rate of Socialism. It was easy for me to predict, when I created my thread many moons ago that Venezuela will end up with blood in the street, thanks to military vehicles rolling over innocent Venezuelans.
Money is a vector of corruption. You can corrupt a system and have immense power without fiat money. People are corrupting others with Bitcoins. Fiat is not the problem in that case. Socialism is, at least withing this thread.
Schools are cheap... Children even cheaper.
Sichuan: corruption alleged in collapse of school on 9,000 studentsFor the first time, official sources admit that buildings were built poorly. Meanwhile, work continues around the clock to dig a drainage channel for the waters of the lake threatening 1.3 million people. Beijing thanks Taiwan for aid, and arrests those who criticized the government over the earthquake.
Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Hundreds of soldiers have already removed 70,000 tonnes of earth and debris, and have dug at least one third of the channel to drain the waters of lake Tangjiashan, the largest of the 35 new lakes created by the quake. Meanwhile, official sources admit that the schools in Sichuan toppled by the earthquake were poorly constructed.
A race against time is on to dig a drainage channel for the water, fed by the flow of the river Jian, before the pressure collapses the natural stone and earth dam, flooding the city of Mianyang and its 1.3 million inhabitants, about 190,000 of whom have already been evacuated to higher ground. The rain is hampering the work, sticking the bulldozers in the mud and interfering with the helicopters. According to Xinhua, the water is still 23 metres below the lower edge of the dam, and Zhou Hua, a Mianyang official, says that "the situation is under control". The press have also reported, citing environmental protection sources, that the lake also contains 5,000 tonnes of toxic chemicals, like sulphuric and hydrochloric acid.
Meanwhile, Lin Qiang, deputy inspector of Sichuan's education department, has for the first time acknowledged that corruption may have contributed to the poor construction of the schools that collapsed, burying more than 9,000 students and teachers, out of the total of about 68,500 confirmed victims (while there are 20,000 "missing"). The parents of the victims are protesting that the schools collapsed, while the surrounding buildings held up.
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Sichuan:-corruption-alleged-in-collapse-of-school-on-9,000-students-12390.htmlSocialism was supposed to protect the children. Oh no! This is not Socialism. It's corruption. Just like in Venezuela. Not Socialism.
Always the same song. Always blood in the end.