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by redox99 1332 days ago
This is a typical comparison between capitalism and communism. In capitalist countries, given a scarce resource, what determines who gets it is generally money. In the USSR this was often determined by queues. [1]

[1] https://www.qminder.com/blog/queue-management/queues-in-ussr...

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Well queues for proletariat and magic vouchers for the actual commies that would allow them skip that nonsense.