When I first asked my dad what life was like in the Soviet Union, he stared into the distance and responded that life wasn’t as worrisome because the basics were always taken care of. His opinion of life back then is decidedly more negative today after fifteen years on the salary of a tenured professor instead of stocking shelves at Aldi.
People really don’t appreciate how people in the Soviet Union never had to worry that they’re gonna lose their job and end up on the street or that they couldn’t retire in dignity. Pretty much everybody in the west lives under the gun. No matter how good your job is, something could happen tomorrow and you end up unemployed, and then your whole life can be turned upside down.
When I first asked my dad what life was like in the Soviet Union, he stared into the distance and responded that life wasn’t as worrisome because the basics were always taken care of. His opinion of life back then is decidedly more negative today after fifteen years on the salary of a tenured professor instead of stocking shelves at Aldi.
People really don’t appreciate how people in the Soviet Union never had to worry that they’re gonna lose their job and end up on the street or that they couldn’t retire in dignity. Pretty much everybody in the west lives under the gun. No matter how good your job is, something could happen tomorrow and you end up unemployed, and then your whole life can be turned upside down.