[CT]

This has to do more with incompetence, carelessness, etc.

Another way of describing a system in which nobody has much or any personal ownership. Its the same reason the collective farms in the old Czechoslovakia left the tractors out to rust in the field all winter long, and left the hay unharvested after they made their quota.

[dfwgator]

It's like the old Russian joke, "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us."