Posted on 04/25/2018 8:23:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“The government employs 78% of the workers, so there is little opportunity to get an income very different from the average. How can people survive on a salary of practically nothing?”
They’re serfs?
My wife and I visited Havana last July. They have no toilet seats. None. You have to squat.
My take on Cuba. The Mafia ran it much better, and the people had more freedom.
RE: “The government employs 78% of the workers,
What about the other 22% ? They can own their business and make profit?
A discouraged Soviet Citizen in Leningrad, in 1985,
summed up the situation to me.
I suggested that things did not seem to be working very well
so he offered this reason:
“We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us”.
They can own their business and make profit?
THAT will probably be outlawed
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