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In communist Poland (probably whole Warsaw Pact), not only were they guaranteed, there was an obligation to work. You could go to jail if you avoided work. Thi
by odiroot 4y ago
In communist Poland (probably whole Warsaw Pact), not only were they guaranteed, there was an obligation to work. You could go to jail if you avoided work.
This created a somehow funny effect, were many just did the absolute minimum on the job.
- haunter 4y agoYes that was true for Hungary too. From the 50s up until to 1989 it was a crime to be unemployed.
- kbelder 4y agoIn Belarus, you have to pay an extra tax if you're unemployed. A coworker of mine was struggling with that, because she was having trouble proving she was working in the US, they were trying to tax her parents. Corrupt hellhole, that country.
- dudzik 4y agoMy grandma used to tell me about this situation. Specifically, how infuriating it was to work with people that would do the absolute minimum and be rewarded like people making an effort.
- loa_in_ 4y agoAnd there's also some kind of a real psychological incentive for some, like myself, to be basically unable to do "absolute minimum" when I come to do the job and engage myself, because that would drive me crazy.
- itronitron 4y agoThat is the human condition and also prevalent in capitalist economies.
- pydry 4y ago>many just did the absolute minimum on the job. Just like here then.
- TMWNN 4y ago>This created a somehow funny effect, were many just did the absolute minimum on the job. Isn't this where the old joke about Communism came from? "You pretend to work, and we pretend to pay you"?