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the suck of sorrow's avatar

What a nose for human perfidy Nate Bear possesses!

My first impression was of Prospera as an enterprise zone. The link to Roger Stone confirms my initial impression. These zones exist to subsume local political control. The beneficiaries are never the original inhabitants.

The people of Promonos are a depressing lot, a sad appendage of my ilk: mathematicians and those trained in computational theory.

I really want to be remembered as an athlete, but I cannot discount the academic part of my life where symbol abstraction is part of my daily routine. Thankfully I never contemplated abstracting away responsibility and simple humanity.

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Ruthie's avatar

Thank you for this piece!. I'm keeping everything crossed that Honduras is successful in removing Prospera and resisting any attempts on destroying their democracy.

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A man with a brain's avatar

Muh democracy to you means no real choice in government. No exit from centralized power. Cute.

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Chris E's avatar

If you read the world with the lens that everything is pure power dynamics and zero sum game and don't do deeper research on what Prospera and other Honduran special economic zones offer, then you arrive at an article like this. If you recognize the leapfrog effect on human prosperity, innovation and freedom to attempt new cures and better laws, and the beauty of mutually beneficial arrangements, you would be reading a very different article.

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Etheria Dark Garden's avatar

Mutual beneficial arrangements? Hardly… its a coup of another country…. and the“reasonings” (excuses and deflections) are immoral and don't matter.

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