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germandiago ◴[] No.29829418[source]
This is the sad truth of places like Cuba or North Korea. Everything is forbidden to the point that eating is difficult. So people get corrupted and the guards, etc. just want their part.

None of those things should be illegal. It is really annoying to see how a leader class kills people of hunger and make everything illegal so that now everyone is a criminal for trying to survive.

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FredPret ◴[] No.29829520[source]
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thechao ◴[] No.29829740[source]
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thriftwy ◴[] No.29830263[source]
Then the USA, where the means of production are owned by workers via pension funds, is closer to communism than USSR which basically had everything state owned.
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beaconstudios ◴[] No.29831410[source]
I know this was a snarky comment, but I have to point out - you know pensioners don't work, right?
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thriftwy ◴[] No.29832456[source]
You know that people invest in their pensions long before they get to stop working, right? At least how it worked in mid-to-late XX century.
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1. germandiago ◴[] No.29833245[source]
In my country the pensions are a poncy system. I will not participate of that as much as possible. I will not even ask for it. I am saving myself.