Originally Posted by
CaryC
Way back in the good old days (not) when the USSR existed, and Communism was in full bloom, everyone in the soviet union was employed. They didn't have any rights, but they were employed.
The workers got paid the same whether they produced a little, or a lot. So the workers, not being big dummies, realized that, and produced as little as possible, after all they got paid the same regardless.
Everyone was employed, but no rights. No rights to bear arms, no freedom of speech, no freedom of religion, no right to a fair trial, and 6 million people died in the gulags.