Re:What made the Irish famine so deadly
by jampekka on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @04:57AM
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As a socialist principle "who does not work" referred primarily to the bourgeoisie, i.e. who get money from capital gains, rents or inheritance as opposed to labor, although it did also mean that in early stages of socialism the communist principle "from each according to their ability, to each according to their ability" is not feasible.
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Nah not really, I grew up in communism/socialism and it was literally forbidden by laws to not have a work, that was ticket straight to jail.
Of course any form of intelligence, university educated or former bourgeoisie suffered way more, got menial or at least underpaid jobs that paid barely for survival.
Both my parents had good university degrees in engineering (back when less than 5% of their peers managed to get to uni, economics and mechanical engineering/welding), and were paid maybe half of what some trench diggers or field workers got and barely scrapped to make ends meet.