How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

by Ben Shapiro

To see how rights in property and economics matter to societies, merely contrast the experiences of North and South Korea. The countries are divided only by an artificial political barrier; the population is ethnically identical. Yet six decades of central planning in the North has resulted in a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of $1,214 as of 2017;29 in South Korea, the same period has resulted in a GDP per capita of nearly $30,000.30 North Koreans are said to be some three inches shorter than their South Korean counterparts, thanks to food shortages; North Korean life expectancy trails South Korean life expectancy by more than a decade; 97 percent of North Korea’s roads are unpaved, compared with 8 percent of South Korea’s.