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by ThePawnBreak 2552 days ago
> In many metro areas property values have increased more the savings from the median income, meaning that the application, or aspiration, of the majority of people is going in reverse.

That's because a lot of people want to live in cities like Berlin. But don't worry, the Soviet Union had a solution for that, too!

You would get assigned a job by the central committee, based on grades, people you know, who you're married to, things like that. So a lot of people would get assigned to very undesirable places, such as villages or very small cities, thus solving the problem of too many people in large metros. Do you think that's an acceptable tradeoff?