• twinnie@feddit.uk
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    10 hours ago

    They didn’t get to choose the apartment they lived in, they couldn’t own them, they were often basic with communal kitchens and bathrooms. It’s a good thing they were free because the wages were low, and people were assigned jobs so there was little they could do to improve their careers, not that skilled people got paid much more.

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      6 hours ago

      I mean… What’s worse, what you’ve described, or paying 50% of your income for a basic apartment or else run from bulldozers as a homeless person? At least people had shelter.

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      8 hours ago

      Could I trouble you for some citations?

      they were often basic with communal kitchens and bathrooms

      The horror, the horror. A building made a decade after a sixth of their population and most of their infrastructure was destroyed by a capitalist invasion and there was communal amenities. Also do you prefer to cook alone?