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Hey, I own a corporation in Vietnam. I had no idea I dominated anything.
The economic police verify I comply with the permitted activities on my business license, issued in accordance with the 5-year plan before last. If I'm doing something other than that, I get shut down (that's not a problem though, I plan to continue complying).
My employees certainly have legal protections. Heck, they have government health insurance (which is mandatory for me to pay for, and offers OK protection, and honestly I'm quite happy it's a thing that exists). I have never seen a 'suicide net'. There's no at-will employment : I can't just randomly fire people, I need to provide cause, and it has to be sufficient.
The air quality in HCMC an Ha Noi is not great these days, but other than those two cities, is pretty good overall. I would classify it as 'moderately bad' in those 2 places. I drive through it on motorcycle on one of the worst routes in HCMC (D1 to Nha Be). It's not my favorite thing about life in the city, but it's also clearly not the main cause of lung cancer -- that would still be cigarette smoking by a longshot.
8 years ago, I would have called the air quality here 'good', it's a fairly recent problem.
Anyway, it's not paradise but it's no hellhole either. Ask me anything you would like to know!
I'm also in Vietnam and just yesterday got brutally dominated by a Vietnamese corporation! The owners of a small food stall, a young couple, made me such an insanely crazy delicious hủ tíu, i almost fell of my chair.
my taste buds? DOMINATED!
my hunger? DOMINATED!
my knowledge of what hủ tíu actually can be? ANNIHILATED!
and now I'm infested with ~~communism~~ capitalism and will probably go back there tonight...
Communism is when small businesses
nah, domination of corporations is when millions of people owning their own small businesses.
Communism is when capitalism
Economic liberalization is a defense against the kind of economic warfare that Cuba has been subjected to. Those are really the only two options: play ball with capitalism to some extent, or get strangled by sanctions.
Communism is when not communism
communism involves the abolition of the government. If you want to know what America does to communist movements undefended by government look at Indonesia in 1965–66