1. •There were no new startup firms driven by the profit motive to
introduce better products, superior managerial techniques, or
more efficient production methods.
•Enterprises went on producing the same products with the
same techniques, even as both products and the techniques
grew increasingly obsolete.
•Workers lacked motivation to work hard because there were so
few material incentives. Because of the low priority assigned to
consumer goods in the production plans, only a limited array of
inferior products and services was available to consumers.

2. Examples:
“The government pretends to pay us and
we pretend to work,” said a Soviet
worker once lamented to a Western
journalist.

3. Main Ideas:
Paragraph 1:
The main idea of this paragraph was to
show the increasing and the grow of the
goods.
Paragraph 2:
The main idea of this paragraph was to
show the work and how its slacked off
and the hard working.