Muru
05-10-2004, 20:03
The protesters were not your tipical mob, they were educated, skilled, productive members of the workforce. Which, ironicy enough, was the problem.
Muru had achieved a mostly-functional communist state, government corruption was a problem, as the economy was not what it had once been, but things were slowly getting better. For the most part, they lived in a fairly equal-opprotunity society. This was also part of the problem.
It was understandable. From the point of view of the farmer, beening provided with all-public services and government housing was a good deal. You if worked as hard as you could, you would always be able to feed your family and send your kid to college (if he was bright enough).
From the point of view of the skilled worker, who could get paid x2 or even x3 as much (after taxes) in the democratic-capitalist countries next door it wasn't so great. And forget leaving, the governement wouldn't even think of allowing all their skilled labor to leave.
Thus, the protests started.
"We demand to be paid!" Shouted one protester giving a speach. "It's not right that an educated man gets paid the same as a manual labor......."
He was probably going to say "laborer" before a hail of rubber bullets took him down. Using nightsticks, tazers, and a new pepper-gas grenade the capitals poliece force dispersed the mobs with brutal efficency.
Muru had achieved a mostly-functional communist state, government corruption was a problem, as the economy was not what it had once been, but things were slowly getting better. For the most part, they lived in a fairly equal-opprotunity society. This was also part of the problem.
It was understandable. From the point of view of the farmer, beening provided with all-public services and government housing was a good deal. You if worked as hard as you could, you would always be able to feed your family and send your kid to college (if he was bright enough).
From the point of view of the skilled worker, who could get paid x2 or even x3 as much (after taxes) in the democratic-capitalist countries next door it wasn't so great. And forget leaving, the governement wouldn't even think of allowing all their skilled labor to leave.
Thus, the protests started.
"We demand to be paid!" Shouted one protester giving a speach. "It's not right that an educated man gets paid the same as a manual labor......."
He was probably going to say "laborer" before a hail of rubber bullets took him down. Using nightsticks, tazers, and a new pepper-gas grenade the capitals poliece force dispersed the mobs with brutal efficency.