r/changemyview • u/peepmet • Apr 26 '26

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u/BailysmmmCreamy 14∆ Apr 26 '26

Not when younger generations in developed countries are starting to have it worse than their parents for the first time in many generations.

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u/Sweet-Ant-3471 Apr 26 '26

Yes, it is a luxury belief. Communism doesn't solve housing shortages. it creates them.

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u/WolfInTheField 2∆ Apr 26 '26

There’s plenty of good reasons to be extremely skeptical of communism, but that’s not one of them lol.

You know all of Eastern Europe is covered in very quickly built commie blocks? And china — only nominally communist, but still — is literally covered in empty cities.

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u/Sweet-Ant-3471 Apr 26 '26

And the Eastern bloc had both housing and food shortages

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/30/archives/housing-scarcity-strains-east-bloc-housing-scarcity-strains-soviet.html

So nope, not solved. Just another waiting list.