Enjoy the depression while you can

Soviet apartment. Is that not good enough for you?

In the Soviet Union, everyone got six weeks vacation a year, women retired at 50, men at 55, they worked short hours and when they were at work, they didn't work very hard. They weren't awash in consumer goods, but they had free time. Lots of free time.

We're spiraling into a global economic depression and we may as well enjoy it. It should be our new lifestyle. If we can just get Medicare for All and forget about health insurance, everything will be fine. And it will put a damper on global warming.

People had less under Communism. That was fine because they NEEDED less. They had free healthcare, they were guaranteed housing, rent was set at 10% of income, they were guaranteed a job and they got paid about the same no matter what they worked at.