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Originally Posted by elphenor
I half agree but the reason you'd want to flee to the US is often just because it's a richer country
you have to compare Cuba to where it was prior to Castro, not to wealthy imperialistic empires like the US
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it's both richer and less authoritarian. I don't doubt that economic opportunity plays the dominant role but I also think people would probably flee from a richer authoritarian government.
I'm not even comparing the two I'm just saying it's easy to understand that perspective.