4 ms·
They broke up cabals by nationalizing individuals member of them? Or you're just doing "red govt bad"?
by bestcoder69 5y ago
They broke up cabals by nationalizing individuals member of them? Or you're just doing "red govt bad"?
- anovikov 5y agoNationalizing means no one is really interested in making the thing succeed. They are now only interested in not getting fired. No one's the owner. This is how whole Soviet economy worked and it was a very unpleasant sight.
- encryptluks2 5y agoBeing part of something that feeds your countrymen and pays a living wage = not interested in success, but being overworked and underpaid = wanting to work? I think you fail to realize the corporate interests and misinformation that goes into censoring any inkling of Marxist ideas. In fact, many of Marx writings were banned and he got kicked out of multiple countries.
- finiteseries 5y agoThey’re talking about ownership and management, not the cogs who couldn’t give a shit either way if it’s public or private as long as they get (under) paid.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- robbedpeter 5y agoWe are all happy! We pretend to work. The government pretends to pay us.
- bestcoder69 5y agoThe USPS did pretty well this holiday season.
- hourislate 5y ago[flagged]
- bestcoder69 5y agoAnd what about every other economy that exists on the spectrum between today’s US and the CCCP? Also, I haven’t experienced this myself, but I do have family that does this today. They stand in line to receive their food rations, although they see it as a positive in that it is preventing them from sliding into poverty or starving. Despite how annoyingly the program is administered, at least in my state.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]