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Happened a lot more under the Saxons.
I'm not much of an expert on German history though, so no one should take my opinion seriously here
So if your boss was Saxon, you could barely understand him to begin with.
That's the problem with communism, there is no incentive to do anythkng and it led to people pretending to work even in the 30s.
Like people in the Soviet Union would get fired for drunkenness and get another job in a week
So some had been fired a dozen times and just moved.
ya, peasants trying to rule a society = communism
And the kgb recorded this but didn't do any as they needed the labor.
They were more concerned about the people that kept their jobs and don't do anything as those mgint be wreckers.
So it was in your best interest to give off the appearance of work.
Rather than work.
that is what most people do today as well
people in office jobs in particular
Then they would actively undermine shit like hand tools to one guy to produce more.
And get rewarded and share a bit do the rewards.
As it looks better.
have to be here for a certain amount of time, time is spent pretending to work if work is done ahead of schedule, beats making an effort to catch up on something else if there is no reward for it
Like say he gets a bonus and gives you 100 bucks for handing him a new tool to mine so he doesn't have to waste time that week while you pretend to mine
It still looks like everyone is mining and output is the same or less.
But he has more so he gets rewarded.
work rewarded is mostly "I worked here longer" rather than "I am more effective at this job"
@charles watson yep
See teachers.
they want people to feel included, very feminine type decisions
@charles watson bring back real feudalism and you get crazy shit.
Like the king of England declaring himself "imperial"
I definetly think we lost a lot of good things from the past
Or other people saying theyre the king as they have a bigger army than the king.
That's basically Rome. The population supported the Emperor against the vaguely democratic Senate every time.
Well if you had enough wealth and military experience, you could get real power.
And they would rather have had the military be the only root to real power under an autocrat.
people not born to hold power probably shouldn't be given power
@charles watson but that never worked.
indeed, kings would often surround themselves with people of ignoble heritage
It has produced the same amount of incompetent people as elections
Maybe less as the son that's incompetent tends to get killed and replaced.
Appointing your number 2 seems to work best.
well there was definetly some disorder that lead to becoming more democratic, but it still would have been preferable to maintain the older order
But your heir has to actually be your number 2 and effective at it.
With monarchy, if you do not have an adult male heir already doing part of your job, then you have failed.