Board Thread:Townie of the Month/@comment-27398195-20180101062544/@comment-32942597-20180105140409

In the nature of humanity is desire to distinguish yourself, to be different.

The  biggest flaw of the system, and that's why it eventually fell apart, is that  everyone `is equal'. An university professor and a janitor would get the same benefits in their lives. For the country leader (more or less) it is the same.

That ultimately led to only the intrinsically bad/sick/wrong people to go up through the hierarchy. Normal people would think: 'Do I really need all those headaches with the same renumeration? No way!'

So the system at the top became preoccupied with all those sneaky, politically sophisticated, thirsty for power people.

That killed the USSR.