>>In a poltronised / rotten communist system, problem was that very few people really 'made it'.
>>Far to meny people were actually given a lot, without really earning it. Or given chance to steal.
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>That's where socialism failed to deliver: for a system that's supposedly ruled by working class, they didn't really appreciate work, did they? You could work and deliver all you wanted, you wouldn't get much better; you'd occasionally get your hand slapped if you started making some serious money by that work (either as an individual, or as a too successful a collective which would put others to shame). The extra wealth you created was spread to the less fortunate, in a display of workers' solidarity - or rather, you got all the disincentive you wanted, your honestly earned money went to the lazy bums on the other edge of town, who were drinking when they weren't stealing and vice versa.
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>As a programmer, I'm happy I never had to do payroll there - it was so full of tricks, the eternal game of people trying to get their own money into their own pockets, and the state inventing limitations, then them trying to dance around the limitations, then new limitations being imposed and round and round and round.
Huh don't even remind me of all that! Anomalies that grew there were to be all written up somehow
and distributed to all law makers arround the globe to help them make better laws.
I see simillar tendencies in western world trough widely spread culture of ShareHolder ripp-offs. Those CEO are real maggicians when it comes to profits (LeftHand/RightHand Now u see it, now u don't! Audience: Clap,clap,clap...) , Inflating / deflating share praces etc. I was so naive to think that in market oriented economy these things cannot exist!
Partner stealing partner, monster conglomerates stealing entire countries or CEOs stealing everybody is not al that uncommon at all!
And audience react more less with 'cheering' ; like that famous sentence from that book
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0826477895/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link(One of my personal favourites of all times)
'...I onda u laganom ritmu ...Rucicama klap klap, nozicama trap trap ; Naokolo uokolo, nije nama tesko ovo...'
Huh, but what this have to do with Walmart cheers and current situation ?!? <g>
>>But cheering at Wallmart ???
>>Alija Sirotanovic&Co were given more of a respect in a day, then these poor people will see in their entire life.
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>The Orphanovich (that'd be the translation, eh? :) actually has an entry on Wikipedia, to my surprise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alija_Sirotanovi%C4%87Cool :)
This was real surprise / flashback :)
Sergio
