lists one way of doing a thing “This is the only way of doing that thing!!”
But think of the landlords!
Submitted 1 month ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world to [deleted]
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chaosppe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 1 month ago
Second one doesn’t look bad imo
tomiant@piefed.social 1 month ago
“Dumb commies, they think this is better than owning your own houses and renting them out so they don’t have to work? Savages, let them live in cardboard boxes.” / the bourgeoisie
m3t00@piefed.world 1 month ago
in soviet russia, apartments block you
devedeset@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
They’re all made of concrete which means I don’t have to hear my upstairs neighbor stomping around at every hour of the day
invictvs@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wish! As someone who have lived in one of those concrete apartments from the communist era of my country, at least as they were made here, you do hear your neighbours. And if your neighbours have an active kid or a bigger breed dog that likes to jump a lot especially. Also every time they drop something on the fooor. I’m not very familiar with construction and material propeties, but there is something about concrete that carries vibrations easily. When a neighbour starts doing some renovations the power drill can be heard in half of the building (it was a nightmare for me, who worked night shifts at the time).
Don’t get me wrong, I’d still prefer that hell to being homeless.
Dojan@pawb.social 1 month ago
Why is there always a neighbour that’s drilling? I live in a similar style building, but much smaller. There’s always someone who drills.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People here understand that the Soviet Union had a homeless population too, right? They actually had a higher rate than the US in the 1980s.
Taldan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The USSR collapsed entirely in the early '90s
Safe to assume everyone is aware they had severe societal issues
Riverside@reddthat.com 1 month ago
The Soviet Union did not collapse in the 90s, it was illegally dissolved against the democratic will of the people. The country was doing absolutely golden until perestroika (look at any GDP graph if you don’t believe me), they had some economic issues due to it between 1985 and 1990 but nothing horrible. What was horrifying was the transition to capitalism. Alcohol abuse, crime, homelessness, unemployment, suicide and drugs became the norm when the entire welfare system was dismantled and the state industry was auctioned to the most corrupt bidder.
Social issues spawned in the 90s during capitalism and do not represent the life in the USSR.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I see this meme getting reposted here every week, and it’s the same nonsense every time. The fact that the people in the Soviet Union had both depressing architecture and homelessness renders the point in the meme both false and meaningless.
wpb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What was their homelessness rate in the 1980s? I’ve looked for 5 minutes and have not been able to find anything. In the US it was 0.01%.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Since the Soviet Union literally, they never officially published figures, however most experts both today and back then agreed that the homeless population was in the hundreds of thousands. Most conservative estimates put the figure at around 150k-200k, while some put the figures as high as 2 million.
The Soviet Population was 266 million in 1980 and 286 million in 1989. In both cases, if we go around the absolutely most conservative estimates of 150k, that’s around 0.05% of the population.
www.rbth.com/history/332657-homeless-people-ussr en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Soviet_census www.csmonitor.com/1988/0519/ehome.html
Zier@fedia.io 1 month ago
Left wing? LOL.
This is a Soviet Block. They are everywhere in the old USSR.Riverside@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Believe it or not, guaranteed housing at an average rent of 3% of the monthly income is an extremely leftist policy.
BrotherSpence@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Related:
blady_blah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why is this right wing or left wing housing?
I guess you can maybe make an argument that this is centralized planning, trying to make the best use of the land available and that right-wing would be pure chaos where the market decides what’s going on. On so you’d have sprawl next to Mansions next to slums, next to McDonald’s, and no parks, and every single tiny piece of land has a building on it, and it all must be fully utilized trying make money in some capitalism way?
Honestly, it doesn’t seem the worst way to do it from a housing density standpoint. Yes, we all want the standalone suburb house or some spot in the countryside, but that’s not the world we live in. For high density housing, this doesn’t seem that bad. Each building has a balcony and overlooks a park and has fresh air and sunshine… How do you do this better?
or is it about equality? Every unit here is equal and therefore bad? That seems a positive in my eyes. Is that really the difference here? There aren’t the ultra poor and the mega rich all mixed in together… Where the poor are in slums and the Richer mansions, is that right wing architecture?
What’s the best way to build high density housing? Tall buildings surrounded by Parks seems to be the most optimal way, right? What am I missing here? The buildings aren’t pretty enough?
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 month ago
More like capitalist architecture…
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Has anyone seen the cat?
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I think of the landlords all the time actually…
m3t00@lemmy.world 1 month ago
rent one and get a free potato
RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Just a reminder that the underlying problems that lead to this kind of architecture aren’t explicitly left-wing. When you were born all the land already belonged to someone else. These might be private properties, corporate owned properties or state owned properties. If you weren’t lucky enough to inherit something from your parents you are forced to live in these boxes. This problem gets worse over time. Lack of opportunities to earn enough money to buy a plot/house, paired with a lack of space in cities also contributed to the situation. It’s shit everywhere because we as humans have continuously failed to implement better solutions.