Re: conlangers of the world, create!

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.

"G[eneral] M[otors] provides a degree of socialism to its employees
that would outrage G.M. if the U.S. government were to do the same
for its citizens."
        --Kurt Vonnegut, I think
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