Well, I think that is part of it. There is only so much you can get people to do by
yelling "davai!" ("come on!") at them. For the life of me I can't think of why the
Soviet government didn't start to increase wages in reaction to performance of the
employee. (There was the so-called ceiling that no employee could earn more than, and
wages were usually dependent on length of time that employee had been working, not on
performance.) Ideology, I guess.
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> don't a lot of people blame the lack of incentives to work during the old Soviet
> times? (as in "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us"?)
> Jim Devine
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