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You really don't think the workers would see the "competition" as a transparent ploy? FWIW, this was a well established practice in Soviet Union - top factory
by aeontech 10y ago
You really don't think the workers would see the "competition" as a transparent ploy?
FWIW, this was a well established practice in Soviet Union - top factory performers got prizes, medals and other rewards for beating expectations. [1][2][3]
Of course, this also tends to tempt the management to raise the required quotas over time.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_emulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_emulation
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_worker_of_Communist_Labour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_worker_of_Communist_Labo...
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement
- luca_ing 10y ago> You really don't think the workers would see the "competition" as a transparent ploy? Even well-trained engineers miss this "transparent ploy". Otherwise there wouldn't be such a culture of glorifying long working hours and almost no holidays in the US, or at least there would be much more push-back.