A fictional discussion on communism and paying supervisors more than laborers from the book The First 15 Lives of Harry August by Claire North. I think she hit the nail on the head with this interpretation of the worker-supervisor-employer-government relationship. We are always going to lose, even when the best intentions are the ones being broadcast. There will always be players in the background to make sure the workers stay where they were meant to be.
'”Professor…, sir, is it not encouraging ideological weakness to offer rewards to supervisors for increasing factory output? Should not the supervisor always remain equal to all his workers?” To which the answer was, “The supervisor is a servant of his workers, for they are the producers and he is not. However, there must be a clear leadership figure in every organisation, otherwise we have no means of gathering information on its success or failure, nor can we rely on universal policies being implemented at the lowest level. In the matter of rewarding the supervisor for success, we find that if you do not, the motivation of the supervisor and the workers declines, and they may not struggle as hard in the following year.”
“But sir! Would not a campaign of indoctrination in correct thinking be the appropriate response to this?”
I smiled and nodded and spoke utter, empty, vapid lies.'
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