☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 17 days agoConformityimagemessage-square52linkfedilinkarrow-up1423arrow-down118
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minus-squareSualtam@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-214 days agoWell if the system fails a bit, your bus or tram won’t drive because the driver isn’t paid. If the system fails so hard that fuel isn’t available at all, you have a catastrophe uncompatible to industrial society in total.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·14 days agoPeople actually did keep going to their jobs during USSR collapse even when their salaries weren’t coming in. A lot of infrastructure kept working because of that. Again, a very different type of society from what we see in the US.
Well if the system fails a bit, your bus or tram won’t drive because the driver isn’t paid.
If the system fails so hard that fuel isn’t available at all, you have a catastrophe uncompatible to industrial society in total.
People actually did keep going to their jobs during USSR collapse even when their salaries weren’t coming in. A lot of infrastructure kept working because of that. Again, a very different type of society from what we see in the US.