House of Paine

production for abuse : why the kremlin's jig was up by 70

 the old 
 kremlin
quantity plans
 were the exact opposite 
              of production for use


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over the long haul
countin hollow numbers
was the whole game


u got paid
when u hit the numbers assigned


consistently hitting the target numbers
made u set for life

numbers spun out by the gosplan elves 

over time
as it became obvious
numbers were not hard to produce
the managers relaxed

the farce  
amounted 
to a progressive 
                       loss of use  value

turning sweat into shit
and if not
stealing it 
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"as plant mangers caught 
the real perverse essence 
of the reward system....."
                       paul samuelson 1973
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long as you hit your numbers
th rest 
didn't matter 

  if one plants out puts 
were 
successively
degraded so what
i hit my numbers

  the next plants   
        inputs are shit 
  so what 
they add to my numbers

no one wants my outputs
 i'll store em 
till some one steals em  

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 "hollow unit counts
lead to hollow products"
                liberman 1962
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" our system
produces not maximum
   utility  
not maximum
  value added
in fact maybe
often as not
 we're producing 
value subtractied ......
 
many many times
the  outputs
we're shipping
 in the boxes 
 are  of little or 
 no use at all..."

"and yet we pay managers
best who  fulfill  our  box counts "
                          the secret journals 
                             of a central planner 1961


 "thank god the nazi's
  forced us to compete 
            militarily
     at least the weapons sector
for a few years 
  was forced to demand
 some real  quality out of itself...

  too bad the isreali's can't 
prove how aweful our tv's are 
like they have our jets.......

what crap
   we make 
now    even our  arms factories 
lay shit too....

    the weapons plants 
     have been turning out garbage 
                 since the mid 60's ......

in the civilian sector 
the standard was very reasonable
long as we only 
poisoned people 
every once in a while well... "
                                      the andropov papers 
         
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