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- From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)
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- Subject: Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)
- Date: 25 Dec 1992 20:27:18 GMT
- Organization: UDSI
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- References: <1992Dec17.163212.20944@eng.umd.edu> <1992Dec22.161111.29439@iti.org> <1992Dec25.002926.4218@ke4zv.uucp>
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- In article <1992Dec25.002926.4218@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >>their Shuttle.
- >
- >Nonsense. The Russians have built no space stations and are having
- >trouble raising the funds to operate the one they inherited from
- >the Soviet Union. Comparing what was done by a command economy using
- >what amounts to slave labor to what's done in an open society where
- >people expect to get paid fairly for their work is meaningless accounting.
- >
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- Consider that the russians/CIS/USSR built a major space program with
- the GNP the size of France. And by the Way, unlike the germans, or chinese
- i dont believe the russians have ever been charged with using slave
- labor. Now the russians had a strange command economy, but things still
- cost, but there were major problems in distribution. the russian/SU
- economy was sorta like massachusetts meets new york via sweden.
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- high taxes, severe rent control and social provision of major services.
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- SUre, they didnt pay their scientists what we paid them here, but they
- provided them with housing, medicine, etc. Also, the motivation of most
- russian space workers was so great, that they didn't mind the bad conditions.
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- the problems within the russian system, were of productivity, design cycle,
- and provision of consumer goods.
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- The chinese use slave labor, and then sell it over here. the russians
- paid their workers poorly, and the workers pretended to work.
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- the gulags were not used as factories to my knowledge.
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