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To show off how modern their lives are, the North Korean government has their tour guides take visitors to an "average" North Korean family to show off the fact that they can afford computers and are connected to a special, North Korea only intranet!
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
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Potemkin Village writ small.
Too much is never enough
KP
Sucks to be born into an evil totalitarian regime.
I guess you just make the best of it and find happiness where you can.
Unfortunately, one could travel around some parts of this country and make a pretty good case for the poverty of the USA.
The important difference is that, in the USA, it's by personal choice.
:)
That's a pretty strong statement. There is always a small percentage of the population that takes advantage of any system. You cannot make a blanket statement like that and really believe it.
If you're comparing poverty in North Korea to poverty in the USA, you cannot ignore the fundamental fact that, in the USA, people are free to live their lives however they choose.
You want to be poor, be poor. You want to be well-off, be well-off. You want to live on welfare, live on welfare (the rest of us will be forced to pay for it). You want to be average, be average. In the USA, it's all up to the individual. Such is not the case in North Korea or other repressive dictatorship countries.
Most of us grew up surrounded with opportunity. Many do not.
I still don't understand what you're saying. EVERYONE in the USA has the same opportunity to become fabulously successful and wealthy. Can you say "Oprah Winfrey", or "Bill Gates", or "Rush Limbaugh"?None of these very successful and wealthy people has a college degree, yet, they make WAAAY more money than I do.
And they weren't born into wealth - they did it themselves.
:)
Edits: 06/18/17 06/18/17
I'll bow out now and let you keep your blinders on. Lack of opportunity is self explanatory.
Lack of opportunity is a state of mind.
floppy discs went.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I think it is an obvious effect. The additional girl at the PC on the left is actually a reflected image of the only person in the photo.
re: big mirror on the wall next to where she's seated.
-Steve
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If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
Very astute observation!
I didn't even think of that until you pointed it out. I thought it was two girls, with the government-mandated clothing and hairstyle for the tourism office's model home.
:)
That would have made for an "infinite" image.
8^)
and whether Disney got any royalties off it.
I think we should level a few cities over there to show them we care.
That's what we did in Libya to save the the equally fuck'ed over by a mad
dictator population of that sad land.
So yeah, let's get on with it.
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get a water filter.
It would appear that they may have computers, but not electricity. Either that, or her touch typing is so good she does not need to see it on the monitor.
she was probably executed after that photo. :(
Execution might not be as bad a fate as what happened to them in the war. There are estimates of how many North Koreans killed by the US and allies in the 5,000,000 to over 8,000,000 range. Mostly humans I would assume. 20-30% of the population. T456
"The Borg is the ultimate user. They're unlike any threat your Federation has ever faced."
- Q, 2365
Edits: 06/16/17
what a disaster, and as I've understood it, the end of the war never happened :(
lucky they got nukes now to keep the crazies like us away.
Two negatives equal positive. Hopefully two crazies make for sanity.
"The Borg is the ultimate user. They're unlike any threat your Federation has ever faced."
- Q, 2365
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