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Re: Communism is not so much different
by
kotajikikox
on 30/08/2025, 16:49:20 UTC
I'm from eastern Europe. In the soviet era noone could own private property, everything was belonging to the state. Then, the state rationed food to you, allowed you to use one of their homes in exchange for labour, allowed selling produce on government-controlled prices, and buying in predetermined quantities.

So let me ask a question. When you buy a home with all your life savings, does it become yours? What makes it differ from the soviets? I mean, obviously they recorded your rights to the building on paper, and now they record it in digital databases. But is it REALLY that different? You don't truly own either. It's all the government's promise to let you access it and keep away whomever should not access it, until they don't.

The only thing you truly own is bitcoin. The rest are promises.
It is true that the government can take away your properties should you violate some laws. Which gives off the impression that the government can just do anything to your property. But the difference in a soviet and a non soviet nation is freedom of movement. In soviet, you can't buy or sell your property but you can do that in a non soviet nation. So basically, be a good citizen and you can do whatever you want with your properties in a non soviet nation.