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                Now why would they do a silly thing like that?

> Cuba is to abolish its system of equal pay for all and allow workers and
> managers to earn performance bonuses, a senior official has announced.
>
> Vice-Minister for Labour Carlos Mateu said the current system—in place
> since the communist revolution in 1959—was no longer “convenient”.
>
> …
>
> The minister pointed out that the current wage system sapped employees'
> incentives to excel since everyone earned the same regardless of
> performance.
>

Via Flares Into Darkness [1], “Cuba to abandon salary equality [2]”

Fidel gets sick and hands control of Cuba to his brother [3], and the place
goes to Hell. Next thing you know, they'll be allowing private ownership to
the means of production [4], and pretty soon—BAM! You get a ton of greedy
Capitalistic pigs [5] running the place.

And of course, it's the fault of the United States for being the only country
in the world with a trade embargo with Cuba [6] …

[1] http://yargb.blogspot.com/2008/06/friday-links_13.html
[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7449776.stm
[3] http://www.cfr.org/publication/11190/castro_sick_bows_to_brother_raul.h
[4] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Definitions_of_capitalism
[5] http://www.econlib.org/LIBRARY/Smith/smWN.html
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba

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