The next echelon of beneficiaries were smaller scale
folk that used to be the backbone of the communist
regime - smaller officials, grocery store managers,
etc.
The people who actually brought all this change,
were not rewarded in any way, or even thanked.
Most of them are busy trying to earn some salary
from serving the new elite. Some escaped to lead
more protected, but usually very mundane lives
in the West.
I managed to engineer a little personal singularity
by using the events to escape to the _frontier_ of
the opened world. I wouldn't swap my position with
that of any of my former peers, but the transition
was extremely costly, lonely, and uncertain.
Now I have less motivation to expend my effort for
common Singularity.
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Alexander Chislenko <http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html>
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