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Scarcity in socialist countries 40 years ago: pearl clutching.
Scarcity in capitalist countries fucking now: yawn.
Bruh, you can buy more flour than that with change dropped in a fucking parking lot.
They can. And how many people have to live under bridges to allow for that?
How many had to live on park benches and prison camps in Warsaw Pact states to allow for their 'generous' rationing?
I think you thought I was defending the USSR. I wasn't.
Good so we got flour figured out. How many homeless people did Poland have in the 1980s? How many does it have now?
Good so we got flour figured out. How many homeless people did Poland have in the 1980s?
Uncertain, because like the Soviet Union, homelessness was illegal and official stats weren't kept. Nevertheless, 'vagrancy' was a serious and recurring problem in Warsaw Pact states.