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The latest Economist special report touches on this in Russia, where companies needed to support workers in the middle of nowhere: A visit to the headquarter
by apaprocki 15y ago
The latest Economist special report touches on this in Russia, where companies needed to support workers in the middle of nowhere:
A visit to the headquarters of Russian Railways can feel a
bit like a voyage back in time. The guards wear the peaked
hats and gruff manners of the Soviet era. A display shows
the children of railway workers triumphing in chess and
athletics. Vladimir Yakunin, the company’s boss, started
his career with the KGB. He concedes that his company is a
giant of an organisation: it has 1.2m employees, 20,000
stations, 86,000km of track, a network of schools and
health clinics and even an equestrian school.
...
He also points out that some of the oddities of his
company, such as its schools and clinics, have been around
for a century and derive from the difficulties of running a
railway in the middle of nowhere. There is no such thing as
pure capitalism or pure socialism, he argues; only more or
less sensible solutions to practical problems.
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