GlyphI would never describe myself as a "capitalist" but I do kinda understand the structure and function of markets a little bit, and it's sometimes frustrating chatting with leftists whose entire experience of markets has been watching the enormous trash-fire of post-2008 dysfunctional crime-based capitalism destroy the possibility of them ever owning a home. Like if you really liked trains but lived in a town where 3/4 of the population had been killed by a chemical supply train derailment
JP@glyph a friend of mine moved to a state that’s still living a communism hangover (one of the baltics), and I noticed some similar discrepancies and over-focused experiences
notsoloud@froztbyte
In some post-communist places it's quite clear that Communism ruined the idea of actually having stuff in common. Things like co-ops or NGOs that are second nature to Danes are distrusted or people simply don't know how to participate.
Letting the Government do things is also frowned upon, and with the way some of those governments work it's understandable. Could be fixed, but requires participation.
I think this is shifting, it is also a generational thing. But slowly...
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