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That's called communism, not various market forces.

During communism, people with the only currency left - power - manage to get all the best things (which can be food, if everyone is starving, or luxury item, if people are not starving yet). In a free market luxury items eventually become common goods.

That's why most common people have a phone, a vacuum cleaner, a microwave, a tv.




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