Sorry I didn’t know which other community to post this on😅. So let me take example of my country, Well so what most people don’t know, is that India is a socialist democracy by the constitution, and I must admit before I start that yes, there’s plenty of problems with this country, but I was surprised by how deep socialist roots go in this country, so I thought a few of India’s policies would make an excellent case study.
Firstly, a subtle one, existence of MRP, maximum retail price, on everything you buy. Packet of lays, coke, medicine, everything has an MRP, over which you cannot sell the product for. Enforcement had been weak historically, but even then you would only see people selling above MRP in amusement parks or movie theatres, for everyday shopping, you are almost always likely to pay the MRP price. I was surprised to know that such law doesn’t exist in the west, though feel free to correct me.
Second, India’s medicine patent laws. India has strict ‘non evergreening’ laws, which means a patent of a medicine cannot be extended unless you made the medicine better. Also government can give orders to bypass medicine patents if deemed necessary.
Third the farming in India. A nice rabbithole to dig in, but I am picking one example, Amul, the most popular brand of milk in India, is less like a company and more like a co-operative society, where they co-operate with regional dairy farms. Most of the money made by selling the milk actually goes back to the farmers.
Plenty of examples, but just these few I could think of. Infact MRP does not even exist in China, so in that policy, India is literally more left than China.
Yeah again, Indian laws in practice are riddled with corruption, but I think the template they work in are interesting, and I think west would tackle those problems a lot better.
Any more examples of socialist democracies?
You know who’s insufferable? The people who downvoted a wrong statement, and the mod who right out removed it. How about just tell them how it was wrong?
I was clearly not trolling or joking, and yes, less educated than you on politics. Did you get tossed out of school in the first grade when you gave a wrong answer to the teacher? No. Then how about have some empathy and tell people what you think is right?
Insufferable. I moved away from Reddit but Reddit found me here.
No investigation, no right to speak: if you were so uneducated on the subject, you shouldn’t have been confidently making assertions about it, including telling people who are educated it that they’re wrong based on nothing but your own arrogance.
And you given an explanation on why you’re wrong, but you chose not to engage with it because you’re too busy acting like a reddit pseudo-interlectual.
I live in China.
I don’t have the full picture of this altercation, but sorry to see others’ needlessly harsh reactions. I also strive for an educational view whenever possible.
Unfortunately, hive-mind cliques are everywhere; what Lemmy offers is the ability to change instances from ones with disagreeable people, or even to the same community name on a different instance. Getting said community up to as much popularity is a wholly different and oftentimes monumental matter, sure, but at least the option is there, unlike on Reddit.