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[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if the USSR tried to implement something like that lol

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We’re literally doing that in capitalist countries. If I want to break my lease without finding a subletter, it would cost 10% of the median annual income.

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe Marx was right?

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, [administrator and worker, MBA and engineer, director and doctor, landlord and tenant], in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another..."