And public transport was dirt cheap, a third of the population had summer houses. If we could replicate the capital distribution without the human rights infringement, that would be amazing. But recently the US is doing the opposite: replicate sky high prison population with skyrocketing inequalities

"Is there anything more depressing than communist architecture?"

"Mass homelessness."

I highly recommend the recent Deprogram podcast (ep #248) where they go into a discussion of the daily life experiences of people in socialist countries. Hakim’s father lived in the USSR and Yugo, living in a the former Yugoslavia, has a ton of anecdotal experiences from family and friends.

In the morning 10 comments. Now 110.

Let's see who is the debatelord vibe basing facts against cowbee...

I have a friend in China that pays around 3500rmb a year (incl electric, heating, ac, internet) for a place in a mid tier Chinese city. It's a 10 minute walk from a metro, fairly new, and she prepaid two years of rent working a gig job at minimum wage for 2 months. Her girlfriend also works minimum wage and they said they aren't even employed right now and they saved some money up from their sporadic gig jobs and are now taking a 2 year vacation because they just wanted to chill, I guess. They send me cute lesbian pictures of them on the beach somewhat regularly. They say no one bothers them about being queer, though their families are still in a somewhat hilarious feud over who should take on whose name. They don't pay any taxes, they are exempt due to a wage cutoff.

I'm sure everyone here has it cheaper! 🤡 China is a capitalist nightmare don't you know?

Downvoters are all landlords

Unironically I love logging on and seeing which meme (it's always a meme) is to become a battleground for the next three days