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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
In both cases the central government took over industry and agriculture. They took all the resources and production, then rationed what they thought the needs were to the population.
And both systems collapsed. Leading to millions of deaths.
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The government didn't take over industry and agriculture in Nazi Germany. They remained under private ownership. The US exercised a lot more central control over its economy in WWII than Germany did...and central control over a wartime economy seems be the best way to win the war (if it's a WWII-style total war, anyway).
And the *collapse* of the communist system and the Nazi system didn't result in millions of deaths; the deaths occurred while the systems were operating. (Although, to be fair, 3/4 of the Nazi deaths were caused by the communist system, in a sense).
But none of this has much to do with Amazon's deals with self-published authors.