Re: conlangers of the world, create!

John Cowan wrote:
>Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 3 May 2001 06:56:29 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@...>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Ah.  "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us."
>>
>>Funny, but it was a filial of a Western company where I first found
>>this slogan thoroughly embodied. It was different in style, but made me
>>understand that I hadn't seen Real Hard Managerial Idiotism before.
>
>Not surprising.  Western corporations and Soviet-era countries are
>both command economies, complete with fucha, the Peter principle
>("promote just beyond the level of an individual's competence"),
>and the secret police.
With that logic, what ISN'T a command economy.

BTW, I like Kim Stanley Robinson's assertion (in the Mars series) that
"Capitalism is Feudalism". Marx hadn't liked that one.

                                                       Andreas
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