• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    This thread is basically:

    Scarcity in socialist countries 40 years ago: pearl clutching.

    Scarcity in capitalist countries fucking now: yawn.

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      3 days ago

      Bruh, you can buy more flour than that with change dropped in a fucking parking lot.

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        2 days ago

        Good so we got flour figured out. How many homeless people did Poland have in the 1980s? How many does it have now?

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          Good so we got flour figured out. How many homeless people did Poland have in the 1980s?

          Uncertain, because like the Soviet Union, homelessness was illegal and official stats weren’t kept. Nevertheless, ‘vagrancy’ was a serious and recurring problem in Warsaw Pact states.