All the worst aspects of free market capitalism as the left would claim seem to be more common in Communist countries. The Soviet Union tried to create "True Socialist Man" who was more concerned for the common good than his own selfishness. It failed BIGLY because people are by nature self-interested. At best, some religions can promote concern for others, but this is by no means a certain consequence and so our laws and government structure is built around the assumption that people will look out for their own interests, sometimes destructively so. This video shows what the Chinese call tofu-dreg construction (and when you see the materials used, tofu makes sense). They correctly lay the blame on the delusions of Communism:
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