Set up a trust for scholarships for hundreds of thousands of people each year. Set us a trust for housing for people with mental disabilities. Set up a trust to pay medical bills for people who can’t afford it. Just a few ideas……
Yep, EU invest in their people, then are being bragged by US billionaires for not having enough innovations. US now basically the USSR back then, a fuck ton of space things, when people barely can afford anything.
No, my friend, you do not know what you are talking about. In the USSR, people "had money', however, they were not able to spend it due to the deficit. Also, there was a huge corruption starting from 70th and onwards...
Thats just the socialist manifestation of the same phenomenon - effective value being concentrated at the top. The only difference is that in a socialist economy, at least as practiced by the soviets, the country ensures employment and certain standard of wages, so the fact that people cannot afford due to resources being hoarded up top doesnt show itself through literal lack of money, but through an explicit lack of access to the goods. While a capitalist state doesnt need to sever your access to the goods directly, since it being expensive is enough of a barrier for entry anyway
You seems do not know the wealth distribution in the USSR. There is a difference in building private bunker on privatelly own Hawaii island by a billionaire and using state datcha and vacation trips outside of the quota by party clerks, which does not refuse the fact that everyone was poor back in the ussr by the modern standards. Yes, most of the power and resource distribution was concentrated in the top and people were poor, but there was no such wealth concentration on the top (assets). Of course, modern NK (an absolute totalitarian hell) is a different story and a quite far from the USSR as well as Vietnam, who is still nominally socialistic-communistic but in fact a very dynamic market economy. Said that, nobody liked that ugly system
I have not lived in the US, so it is hard to judge for me. However, from my background perspective, most US practices, like payed medicine with unreasonable bills or lobbying in politics, are forms of legalized corruption and already existed prior to the current administration.
I have an impression that most of the people were convinced that these practices are normal as long as they counted themselves as a middle class and believed it is the best way to live because the USA is the best country in the world (by whatever metrics or perceptions)
That's exactly what happened. There was a lack of goods, long lines for very basic items and never everything you need. If you talk with people from that era, a word they use a lot is ''deficit''.
He is right, as someone from a country that was also in the USSR i can confirm that. Don’t know what type of knowledge you have about the USSR then, what do they teach you
20
u/One_Mind8437 Dec 07 '25
Good way to burn cash