- 09 Sep 2021 06:40
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Turn the clock back over 30 years. Little old me, a denizen of Syndicalist, Market socialist Yugoslavia accompanied little old dad to a certain little old shop situated across a little old bridge spanning a little old river just behind our free state mandated housing complex. My dad made the equivalent of ~$50 a month in today's terms, barely working for the public sector. Nobody worked in communist yugo. At most 2-3 days a week, max.
It didn't matter because milk, flour for bread, electricity, housing, etc were all free. Used yugo's were cheap so cars weren't a problem. But anything beyond the most basic of goods produced abroad still cost real actual money. And with everybody getting a cut of the pie prices for the goodest of goods (eg VCR players) were astronomical. So there was I, with dad, at the back of this shop, buying a STOLEN 6 head VCR player for $200. That's months of savings. For a fucking stolen VCR recorder that retailed for $500 but we got it cheaper.
This is what happens when you begin handing out gibs and base your entire society around gibs. This isn't star trek. So fuck off with your universal basic income. It won't work. Get a job.
It didn't matter because milk, flour for bread, electricity, housing, etc were all free. Used yugo's were cheap so cars weren't a problem. But anything beyond the most basic of goods produced abroad still cost real actual money. And with everybody getting a cut of the pie prices for the goodest of goods (eg VCR players) were astronomical. So there was I, with dad, at the back of this shop, buying a STOLEN 6 head VCR player for $200. That's months of savings. For a fucking stolen VCR recorder that retailed for $500 but we got it cheaper.
This is what happens when you begin handing out gibs and base your entire society around gibs. This isn't star trek. So fuck off with your universal basic income. It won't work. Get a job.