Re: OT Atlas Shrugged.

[JoeRaisin <JoeRaisin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

petem wrote:
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> "JoeRaisin" <JoeRaisin@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de groupe de
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>> RLB wrote:
>>> On Aug 27, 7:09 pm, JoeRaisin <JoeRai...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Robert L Bass wrote:
>>>>> "Bob La Londe" wrote:
>>>>>>> You realize of course that the story, while interesting, is a
>>>>>>> fiction?
>>>>>> It?s a parable.
>>>>> Just so we all understand it had nothing to do with Obama.
>>>> But what do you think of the analogy?
>>>>
>>> I think it misrepresents what Obama is about as well as what socialism
>>> is in the modern age.
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>> Taking Obama out of the equation (since I already acceded that his
>> inclusion was a load of crap) you do not believe the scenario
>> illustrates socialism.  In what ways do you believe socialism to be
>> different from the example?
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>> I believe it shows how the fruits of everyone's labor is collected in
>> a general pool and the results distributed evenly.  It further shows
>> the effect this has upon the work force.
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>> That effect was illustrated when the Berlin wall came down.  After a
>> while the business owners in Germany were loath to hire those from the
>> former communist regions as their work ethic was horrendous.
>>
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> Joe there is a damn big difference between socialism action and comunism..
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Except the Soviet Union wasn't really communist - it is generally
accepted that it met the definition of a socialist state rather than a
communist one.

The point being that it was good example of what happens when a person's
reward is not tied to their work ethic.  A majority of the folks decide
that it is useless to excel and just go along for the ride.

A smaller percentage will begin to slack off just because their basic
needs are being met even if they do nothing at all.  I've seen this too,
in the military there were always those who figured the job will get
done by those who had a decent work ethic and they could just sit back
and wait for the chow hall to open - most of them didn't last very long.