“An old Soviet saying: They pretend to pay me and I pretend to work”
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I’ve always loved that, how true it was (is). The best humor is based on real truth.
To your point, to which we can now add:
“And I pretend to buy something, and they pretend to count it as economic activity”.
“An old Soviet saying: They pretend to pay me and I pretend to work”
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That old reality based saying, stemming from the great Russian sense of humor, is one I’ve always loved.
When it comes to American government “workers”, it should be modified to say “They ACTUALLY pay me and I pretend to work and MY PRETEND WORK IS ADDED TO THE GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT”. Ain’t life grand for the government and its cronies!