> reasonable confidence that you could work at the same place until retirement based on what? on belief that the wise communist party conquered the laws of eco

> reasonable confidence that you could work at the same place until retirement based on what? on belief that the wise communist party conquered the laws of economics, history and nature? Maybe disintegration with plunging into poverty is inevitable and natural end for the "oppressive regimes". Then at least East Germans got it easier than their neighbors to the East thanks to reunification.