Maybe if you stop treating your citizens like cattle then we'll talk about lifting sanctions.
Yes, they were totally going to disarm their nuclear arsenal.
Pinky swear!
What sucks is that this roller coaster of denuclearization only serves to give Trump's admin a repeating win. No one cares that we lose the agreements after initial talks, we just get to redo the same song and dance every time.
NK also isn't going to denuclearize until someone literally walks into NK and forcibly does so. It would be suicide for them to even broach the idea publicly.
the US treats its own citizens worse than cattle...
Sanctions have historically been seen as an act of war and are the reason why the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. You might not like it, but mutually beneficial trade is the biggest proponent of peace in the 21st century.
So what was the USA supposed to do? just sit back and not to anything while glorious nippon was rampaging across china and southeast asia? If they hadn't tried pearl harbor to start with, they wouldn't have been bombed into such a miserable state by the american army.
For over a decade, North Korea has used Nuclear Weapons to hold the world ransom so that their regime can remain in power and continue to murder its own citizens. Now, North Korea is using DEnuclearization to hold the world hostage and continue to murder its own citizens. The end game is not economic prosperity, or for better relations between the countries; the goal is to keep the concentration camps up and running, and to keep Kim Jong-Un fat and happy while his own people starve to death
Who cares about human rights when you can have trade deals?
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After WW2 it was decided that the US would have a proactive foreign policy in dealing with these sort of regimes.
I always say that human rights and a legitimate government by the people and for the people are a huge proponent of capitalism. In the words of Milton Friedman, "the world is run by rationally self interested people being free to pursue their own interests."
Fuck off if you expect me to denuclearize the Korean peninsula in a FP post.
Tell that to the Walmart employees are paid so little they have to rely on government food assistance despite Walmart turning significant profit.
Tell that to all those coal miners in the 1870s who lived in pretty squalid conditions in towns owned entirely by the company and were paid in vouchers only valid at company stores.
Tell that to the hundreds of years of literal slavery that an entire race of people were subjected to that resulted in the bloodiest war in American history and still has a profound violent impact on their decendents.
Things change. I'm going to nitpick on your statement that Walmart employees are underpaid. Walmart employees have been given substantial wage increases in the past two or so years. The starting wage at Walmart is very competitive which is why you don't hear as much WMT-hate as you used to. The CEO of Walmart, actually and I shit-you-not, started out in shipping and receiving.
I also personally believe that the anti-trust laws that were created in liue of John D. Rockefellar becoming the richest man on earth are a component of the N.A.P.. but I would hate to be appealing to the lowest common denominator.
I probably should also point out that sweat shops are an alternative to subsistence farming which causes mass starvation during crop failures.
None of this changes the point of my post. You stated that capitalism requires human rights. I have given examples where unregulated capitalism not only exists alongside a lack of human rights but also has actively been used to diminish them.
I think a lot of what you mention is state-sanctioned boondoggle, and that The Wealth of Nations kind of coincides with The Leviathan and all of those other essays on what makes a legit government that came out during the 18th century. People's beliefs tend not to change much throughout their life, especially as they grow older.
Be wary of evil men going for absolute power by promising icecream-for-all.
"No-true-capitalist government doesn't have human rights!"
"State sanctioned" in this vein is no different than unregulated capitalism. Again, it misses my point that capitalism exists and has existed without human rights.
Being a have not is one thing, but don't you think we have quite enough needless suffering going on? you shouldn't need to look over your shoulder to see where your next meal is coming from. You should expect to be given at least a minimum of a high school education without any cost. You ought to be paid at the least a living wage, if you choose to work, and have some form of basic income guaranteed for the sake of stability. You ought to also not wind up poverty stricken or dead just because of one single stroke of medical misfortune. Food ought to be distributed locally for those who need it, instead of permitting companies to plow crops or dump them if they can't sell them, which is the biggest bullshit of all.
This society we live in is expert at squeezing everybody for every drop it can get, and fuck you if you can't be squeezed for just one drop more. And as for the rest of it, maybe it's time we started looking towards people instead of profits.
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>suffering isn't such a bad thing
This post is such a mess I have no idea what it's trying to say.
Why is you believing that the opioid epidemic a manufactured crisis relevant (also... what?)? Why did you bring the northerners in specifically? Why are you bringing up these essays? You can't just drop them in without context because it makes it just seem like you're just namedropping. I can't find a single point here that makes a lick of sense.
Are you okay? Are you having a stroke? Do you need us to call an ambulance?
Now that's what I call edgy.
The US may treat its citizens like shit alot of the time, but teh fact that you think its on the level of North Korea is flat out hilarious.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't it would seem.
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