JuneFall

Have you considered not going into debt?

I bet American supermarkets were better for the elites than soviet markets. That's kind of the point.

Friends of mine did regularly break out in tears in Western supermarkets. Mostly cause we didn't have enough money to buy what we needed. I however only cried seldomly!

I was working in a workshops store room once and did order stuff so that you could easily access it, but also that you see how many are still there and if you have to re-order (so not facing if two lines were next to each other). One of my bosses was really angry at that and argued it looks nicer if it is done the other way. This did cost plenty of time we couldn't use for maintenance and led to equipment breaking down more often. There also were the days in which the bosses system (who also undid the markings we did for low stock count) lead to stuff we needed not being available. Yet he did pay two months salary of us for training for himself and conferences to know the latest in storage logistics and such and came back from them shit faced.

Capitalists, owners and bosses often work against the interests of the company, cherishing their control over other people's time for useless tasks. However unless in D/s this is involuntary and without consent this is a relationship that has to be surpassed.

The GDR imported some food items from Vietnam and other fraternity socialist countries. Those items were often not so well stocked in the FRG. You can ask around in urban centers after gentrification today would they rather have bananas only rarely but a flat that is theirs or bananas but no flat?

The lemmy.world users are at it again.

I remember that getting high paying short term jobs was kinda easy. If you luckily got in touch with someone the likelihood that they would contract stuff out to you was there, especially in terms of electronics, IT, or event organization.

I did fly around a bit and that was quite relaxed back then. The security was virtually non existence, the food was somehow nicer (except if you were vegan, vegetarian or had trouble with lactose or didn't eat pork for religious reasons). There was little on board entertainment though that would fit your interests, so talking with your random neighbours was more common (this was true for any location really).

When I was a kid we would re-purpose wire from construction sites to dig our own land lines between friends and used self constructed radios to stay in touch. Weekends at the scrap yard were quite common. During summer you would have some locations in parks, at the river or alike you would meet up and those were social meeting places, where you could expand your social circle or make out with persons during holidays you often wouldn't see again. A similar attitude I only found later on in live at cruising places (and some festivals with swinger/hippy vibes or left flat shares).

Which is a good point since the hostile part of the lemmyverse tries to tell us, who have quite a bit of diversity and lived experience that we are all 14 year olds. Some of us witnessed the births of countries which freed themselves from colonialism and USA's influences life!

It is a try to reduce us to a caricature that can be easily dismissed.

the time tax to get basic life done was pretty absurd—and typically fell on women

The "time tax" in the FRG on women was higher with the demands for sole child care with relatively little external child caring services from the ages of 0-18 (and schools which weren't open long).

I did a small comment about the "commission" wich found the Nazis as not guilty. It was a farce and you can find it in my profile. Don't believe anyone who says the commission found the unit "not guilty" that is wrong, as it implies a lawful process.

That the liberals did defend him so much more than they defend us marginalized or comrades exposes their objective effects.

the time tax to get basic life done was pretty absurd

True, but it was much less than now for plenty of things in the USA right now. This includes healthcare, child care, universities, education, holidays, public transport, funnily even flats at this point if you are looking at SF or Berlin.

Pretty much everything you needed for everyday life or a substitute you could get fast. What was your experience living there?

Sure there was "Bückware", but the standard of things you could get without large time expenditure was decent and much better than it is now for plenty of poor in the USA. With the advances in productivity and technological prospects since then what level of consumption could we create now? With near instant availability and stock information for consumers, retail, logistics and producers?

it was grey as fuck

With plenty of green areas in which trees had to grow (you see it now) and also a ton of Lauben/Datschas and regular holidays in greenery. Cities could've been much more colorful indeed.

An example of what I mean btw… our church had a missionary to West Germany that visited. He told us in the East, there was a bus of schoolchildren from the West driving through. The police boarded their bus and found a Bible, so they pulled all the kids out and shot them. Literally all the grown ups in my church uncritically believed this story.

Those slanderous things luckily can't survive the internet. But the sentiment can. The lies evangelicals tell is absurd.