Comments by "surely you joke, mein failüre" (@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531) on "USHANKA SHOW" channel.

Sounds like one of the major differences is that, with housing being provided by the state, housing was not operated on a for-profit basis, with the provider charging up to the maximum that the market will allow. Housing costs in the USA tend to be speculation-driven, whereas service costs (daycare for the kids, for example) are driven by how cheap the business can pay the daycare workers.
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If I may add - rent in capitalist countries is driven by a combination of speculation plus what the market will bear (because people need places to live) whereas food and goods and services are cost-indexed more to the labor required to produce them. When your condo is very expensive, it is not because a large army of people must be paid wages to maintain it. Quite the contrary - they are usually few and not very well paid. But everyone needs a place to live.
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Another joke: "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under socialism, it's the opposite."
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Guessing this is because the price of food was highly indexed to the cost of the labor required to produce/harvest/deliver it, whereas buildings (once put up and running) have fairly low carrying costs month to month.
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@georgerogers1166 Apparently there is a lot of housing, but much of it doesn't have adequate heating / roofing / water / sewer / power. The youtube channel "Vasya in the Hay" shows some of that. Also the Russian documentary series "the Pentagon" about the people living in that disintegrating apartment block.
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Lots of ocean around the southern latitude.
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Great video & thanks for sharing. That thing about the buses .. sounds like Gosplan did its work all too well. There weren't excess buses available that would allow them to trash the units used for the evacuation of Pripyat and the surrounding area. Over here in the US, the common notion is that central state planners were clueless and flying blind, but surely there must have been some pretty good data people crunching the numbers to run such a large republic.
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This is a subject that I wish Jared Diamond had covered more deeply in his book "Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed". This problem is as old as history. Somewhere along the continuum between the extremes of paying everyone the same (on one end) or letting the market determine the wage (on the other end - AKA pure Dickensian living) there must be a comfortable medium. No clue how it would be defined. One place that has done much real-life experimentation on this subject is the commune (forgive the lack of the current term) called Twin Oaks down in Louisa, Virginia, USA. It has existed since the late 1960s. They have experimented with a great many labor-credit systems.
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@adrianalexandrov7730 Currently the richest:poorest wealth ratio in the USA is beyond what it was during feudal existence, meaning the USA needs to return to high marginal tax rates and plowing that tax money back into infrastructure, which would necessarily include social programs such as education and more readily-available healthcare. As far as reducing regulations .. right now there's an enormous chemical spill in eastern Ohio that came about precisely because of that.
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@adrianalexandrov7730 Oh no. The railroad company quite deliberately lobbied to be allowed to place fewer operators on the trail - in order to increase profits. In former times, a caboose rider could look at one side of the train every time it took a big sweeping turn. Had that operator been aboard, the axles on fire could have been spotted many miles before the derailment. Are you checking in from a country where these aspects of it are not being covered at all in the news?
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