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It's fun to see a simple plain truth downvoted. I was a software engineer in the Soviet Union. To buy your family something to eat (like milk, or cheese) you s
by MikePlacid 4y ago
It's fun to see a simple plain truth downvoted.
I was a software engineer in the Soviet Union. To buy your family something to eat (like milk, or cheese) you should skip work and spend an hour or more standing in lines at a grocery store. I used a different strategy: work late and around 8 pm there were no lines at you could still buy sour milk, bread and canned fish in tomato sauce. I survived on this and was pretty happy cause I liked my job. But remember the requirement: no kids...
- tartoran 4y agoWould you mind reframing what you’re trying to say here (because it doesn’t make much sense in this context)?
- MikePlacid 4y agoI will be glad to clarify your understanding of my story, but it is hard to do when you have not described what your understanding is. But let me try. The context was: Thesis: Employing people who barely provide any value is no good for anyone in the long run. Argument: Full employment was always the primary goal of all communist countries, so (state) companies were practically required to employ everyone on the job market. (My comment was: Plain, simple truth.) The argument continues: Many of those people had little to do and so, when people got their salaries at the end of the month, there wasn't that much stuff in the stores to buy with it, as the companies didn't have much of an output. (My comment was: Plain, simple truth again. My story: just an illustration what my "living experience" as a software engineer was in these conditions. Basically: if your do not want to spend a lot of time in lines, you can't get milk. Not enough milk was produced to cover all the money paid to all the workers. Only sour milk to those who prefer to spend their time working.)