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People always cry "communism bad" when anyone suggests anything having to do with any type of reform. Communism is shit and all but there's only one thing worse than communism: feudalism. You have to be subservient on someone more successful than you because all the prices and job wages are fixed in order to force this on as many people as possible. This can be in the form of joining the armed forces just for the guaranteed housing and healthcare, continuing to go to college and racking up endless debt just because it allows you to survive for a little longer, or living on your maga cousin's farm so you can do farm work in exchange for being allowed to live there for a price you can afford. It's literal feudalism.
Fuck all the idiots that have been brainwashed into fighting to "conserve" how awful and broken everything is. I have skills. I have a college education. I haven't ever been employed in anything besides fast food or retail. Corporations are too busy running the entire economy into the ground because it makes the stock go up to care about saving the economy or human rights.
If I could start over I would've spent all the money I spent on college instead buying a plot of land to legally be "homeless" on and maybe bought an rv. Unlike owning a home or living in apartment, it may be possible to keep costs of living low enough this way to be sustainable. Seems to be the last method of living they haven't colluded and price fixed to the point where no matter what, the costs of living are higher than jobs that are possible to actually get and keep, for now at least. Just wait until the "right" of land ownership is tied to proof of religion, neurotypical status or a thc drug test, I'm sure no one will even bother to fight back.
I grew up in the DDR, that's what it was like.
The party decided what and how you live your life, how much equality you deserve. You had to scratch their backs to get their scraps. The only way to improve your living conditions was to be completely subservient, in private and public life.