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Isn't capitalism great?
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Bottom right pic hits hard. I plan to die in some fashion long before that. Fuck planning or saving for retirement if it doesn't matter.
In other news, Denmark raised their retirement age to 70 recently, and our conservatives in the US have been squawking about the same. LOL.
What the fuck is the point of this shit existence for anyone who can't become rich as a celebrity or wall street psycho? 90% of us are just here so the wealthy can have yachts, Lamborghinis, and mansions.
This place sucks.
The right wing party in Australia (a few elections ago) increased retirement age but with a "rolling date". Meaning they all get to retire on time with the earlier date but the later you were born the later your retirement age. They literally set their retirement age in stone then fucked younger generations on their way out. It's still currently rolling out, recently increased to 67 in 2023.
(In more ways than one bit this one is particularly obvious and idk how they got away with it).
This is the kind of socialist hellscape the capitalist is protecting us from.
Edit: Dense mixed used urban development, biking to work, walking to your nearest weekly market, buying unprocessed food for groceries and common public area easily accessible by foot for old people where they can mix with other generations.
Hmm but what if I want to make thousands of people work for me without giving any excess value created by their labour to anyone else?
What City is this?
That's actually Chess, a board game that came out several years ago.
It looks like it was taken from the tower in Crest, France, but I might be wrong
Image search says you're right. Looks idyllic
It is, it's a great place to visit or live in.
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All these pictures are from capitalist countries
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Actually, this is what you're fighting for in Capitalism:
Not for yourself, though, rather for a few who add up to less than 0.0000375% of Humanity.
Weren't they going to build a 5-mile wide boat that looked like a turtle. Where's that, I'm fighting for that.
Don't you miss: 
EDIT: Oh dang, people don't like to fight for this either :(
There are many reasons to dislike the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, but these tenements are not it. Quite a lot of people prefer to buy these sorts of apartments over newer ones simply because they are built better. Keep in mind that those in these sorts of pictures haven't been properly maintained in years. They are 40-50 years old, it's normal for any building that has not been taken care of to look worn down - but if the owners of these apartments put in the effort to modernise their buildings, they are very comfortable. I live in one and it's great!
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In Yugoslavia it was actually quite the opposite. Old commie blocks in Serbia all have big green spaces around them and playgrounds, while new buildings are all built on top of each other with no room to breathe and no greenery in sight.
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Yes because communist countries have ellegant urban planning 🤡
If only there were more than these two dreary instantiations of differing economic frameworks, but as alas, I know only of these two pictures.
Bro this could be literally any large east-Asian city on an overcast day, most (all?) of which have better urban planning than the rest of the world by a large margin, and most of which fall firmly on the "capitalist" side of the spectrum. "Bloc" housing (or as we call them over here, big-ass apartment buildings) aren't some communist-exclusive phenomenon.
Not sure about this picture, but generally Soviet blocs were built with lots of surrounding green space, all the amenities you’d need within walking distance, and the rest of the city connected by public transport. Way more human-friendly than the US suburban hellscape.
Westoids think bloc housing is uglier than homelessness.
That can literally be the US with roads 2 miles wide
I dont have a house or a retirement to fight for.
I kinda hate this pic.
- There are worse fates than living in the suburbs, lol, what? If the experience seems bland remember it's not an infrastructure 'problem' but a demographics one. And bland beats ghetto -> warzone.
- You can easily opt out of consumerism, they haven't made it illegal yet! Of course, if your life has mostly just consisted of 'going from little kids' toys to bigger boi toys', that's vacuous and depressing but, again, it's a personal decision.
- Car-centric cities and infrastructure is a result of greed and bribes. An argument can be made that capitalist societies more easily push people into antisocial selfishness though, of course.
- Retirement homes are, again, a 'skill issue' that's very prevalent in certain well known communities and almost nonexistent everywhere else. Raise and love your kids and be family oriented and one of them will take care of you (as it happened to my grandma, and it'll happen to my mom and MIL, and I assume, God willing, to my wife after my passing). Again, I don't know how much of this behaviour can be ascribed to capitalism.
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Urban sprawl, car dependency, vinyl rubbish, famine pensions.
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