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Your comment was correctly downvoted and flagged because it took the thread on a generic ideological tangent and further into flamewar. This is not the correct way to respond when other comments are already doing flamewar. The correct way to respond is not to post more flamewar comments. You can do that in one of two ways: (1) post something thoughtful and substantive, that isn't generic and doesn't repeat flamewar tropes; or, (2) not post anything.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: considering that I had to reply to you in a very similar way only yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27043779), and on multiple occasions before that, would you please review the site guidelines and stick to using HN as intended? We end up banning accounts that keep violating the rules this way.

It's interesting that for me the first association that comes to mind is the USSR factory culture, which did indeed result in such attitudes towards quality.

Plenty of capitalists have been guilty of playing fast and loose with safety and quality in order to increase profits... as long as revenue (and the share price) is heading upwards, who cares? shrug

Every country has some of this, the Dutch example:

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zesjescultuur

This is quite different. In communism, in theory - everything belongs to everyone, so nobody cares about anything. There is no so-called "minimum" that you have to do - you just have to been seen as "working". It's only when your job is in the spotlight and doing something incorrectly could place your family in the camp, then they somewhat care. Here the falling rocket may serve as an objective to test countries air defence mechanisms, so that could have been done on purpose and communist incompetence may be a smoke screen.

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