• polpotkin [none/use name]
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    5 hours ago

    Print more money and tell everyone that the inflation is transitory, this will shock the economy to help jumpstart your new poor. Companies will lay off underperforming workers and the restriction of capital will limit new company initiatives so they won't get rehired. Limit the supply of housing everywhere except very high density near your desired factory sites and provide generous subsidies to builders. This will keep your voting body relatively stable so you can get re-elected but create a new serving underclass. Hope this helps.

  • spectre [he/him]
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    6 hours ago

    The in-game answer is that you enact the industry-2.0 policy which reduces the needs of factories to a few educated workers that manage the automation.

    • Dessa [she/her]
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      6 hours ago

      Create more poor people AND improve output! Win/win!

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    edit-2
    6 hours ago

    The correct answer is crime and living standards that affect the level of education people attain, limiting their options. And migrants. And racism and either racist or classist policing(or both).

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        6 hours ago

        If you have no poor people currently just drop random crates of meth and heroine into the city and there will be soon!

          • nohaybanda [he/him]
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            5 hours ago

            If they implement prison labor as a mechanic watch every clueless lib speedrun the 90s incarceration explosion without a hint of self-awareness or contextual understanding. Meanwhile, the chuds will be wanking themselves raw over it, of course.

  • nohaybanda [he/him]
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    8 hours ago

    Why do all these contradictions keep getting mixed up in my epic chungus capitalism simulator?!

    oooaaaaaaauhhh

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    8 hours ago

    I am going to be eternally amused by Cities Skylines players/developers realizing that their Perfect Capitalism Simulation... fucking sucks for almost everyone. Including the person ostensibly "in-charge" of the project.

    • SSJ3Marx [none/use name]
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      8 hours ago

      This is why the industries expansion works the way it does, with the state completely owning and operating the industries in question. The devs realized that even in virtual worlds Dengism is the only sane path.

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    9 hours ago

    Something about Paradox games just brings out the historical materialism in people.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    8 hours ago

    “No poets on the commune….but of course we’ll still try to choose your job for you! All the safe, comfortable, decent paying ones should just go to rich people’s children!”