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Re: conlangers of the world, create!

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, May 3, 2001, 16:06
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 -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@...> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein