when a…

by honeydu

Posted to Poetry and Politics on 2003-01-07 15:02:00

Parent message is 351941
…man is working his ass off on an assembly line and the guy next to him takes fifteen coffee breaks a day and doesn’t get fired, that pisses him off. That was the downfall of Russian communism. The people who worked hard made the same money that the lazy ones made. People only did enough to get by. That’s where communism and utopian thought fails. The only way to deal with slackers is to get them out, which is nice in theory, but hard in practice.