• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Probably never. Land is a very finite resource violently controlled by a smaller and smaller group of people. There’s no reason for them to dump their holdings. People literally need land to survive. It’s the ultimate and original capitalist cash cow. It’s a fundamental pyramid scheme on human needs along with food, water, air, etc. That’s a very solid foundation in a fascist police state.

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      when even weathier than average citizens can’t afford it, then billionaires can buy up everything for chump change and squeeze that money back out of the populace with absurd rent that nobody will even try to undercut. especially now that anyone with one or more brain cell knows this whole idea of ‘checks and balances’ only applies to the poor

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        And once people have nothing left to lose and their families are starving they drag the rich into the streets and beat them to death with asphalt torn from the roads. History has repeated this scenario over and over again.

        As of 2023 there are 735 billionaires in the US, and 340,000,000 non-billionaires.

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            Part history, part cultural differences. It would take quite the write-up to get into those two in relation to Russia, but that’s the short answer.

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            Memory of conditions following the collapse of the USSR? For the most part conditions are still way better than they were 30 years ago in Russia, but who knows if they keep sliding back