• anakronos@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Your study is literally saying that deindustrialization was an indirect cause of more direct social causes

    Both countries experienced deindustrialisation, but social and economic policies have offset Hungary’s more immense industrial employment loss. The results are relevant to health crises in other regions, including the deaths of despair plaguing the American Rust Belt

    I didn’t “get my life” amigo, I was six when communism fell. I got two hours of TV, cold winters with centealized heating cut out, rolling blackouts. I don’t regret that.

    I don’t think it’s unfair to not want to suffer through a shit life. I don’t think a lack of viable products (thus, deindustrialization once you can’t compete) is a cause of mortality, but a consequence. If your country built wooden train toys while the imperialist pigs rolled with the TGV, of course they also worked on extending your lifespan.

    And they probably made CNC machines to make nice wooden train toys too, instantly, unlike your shitty handmade ones. So of course you can’t even export them. And of course you have no chance of making CNC machines either, since you had no viable precision mechanics industry or cheap computers.

    I don’t think the rich should suffer because I don’t have it as good.as them. Fuck em, there always were rich people.

    And while I don’t like rich people, the idea that everybody should return to communism and suffer through my very bleak childhood, simply so nobody has better things is silly.

    That’s a cult promising redemption. That’s Guyana, or Élan school. Suffer now for better things later. We all suffer.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      The fact is that things got a lot worse for a whole lot of people after communism fell. Also, while people in eastern Europe got help from US, places like Kazakhstan and the rest of other former republics never got any help and things have never recovered there. Of course, once again you don’t give a shit about other people. You just care about you.

      What’s unfair is to say that it’s ok for others to suffer through life for your benefit. That’s what capitalism is, and that’s what you cheer.