Tufta, it’s how you pad the quota.
If you fail to make the norm, they reduce your rations.
Fail to make the norm again, they reduce them even more.
If you make the norm, they feed you, then raise the norm.
Still one can always try for Shockworker with a higher
ration and double the norm.
Fun hunh.
The joys of socialism.
Tufta was imaginary production to meet the norm.
In logging for instance, workers were required to
cut and stack so much wood per day. Mostly unattainable.
However there were stacks of wood previously cut,
through out the woods, so workers would just saw the
ends off an existing stack, restack it and so they
made the norm for that day...Tufta.
Now one can apply this to healthcare and see what the
result would be, or for that matter nuclear power plants.
chernoble comes to mind.