Efficiency of labor of migrants in housing and communal services

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

We periodically discuss such a topic as crooked tile laying in the city. And everything is more or less clear to everyone - the tiles are of high quality, and sometimes they are not of high quality … to lay the tiles, you need to carry out a number of work to prepare the base, you need to properly maintain the proportions in the mixture, you need to correctly make the seams, you need to take into account the weather … A lot of things are needed. And in practice, some Tajiks who are hired in Vidnoye come right outside the Moscow Ring Road - formerly teachers, doctors and cooks in their own country - and begin to lay them down as God wants them to, and ram them down with a log so that the results of their labor do not stick out of the ground. …

Exactly the same people are engaged in another type of work - landscaping in the city's microdistricts. In winter, they are given bags of reagent, which they send to pour. For the reagent, like any chemical, there are quite clear application rates, including requirements for consumption depending on the area. Only Tajik teachers are not supposed to know about these norms, and they are only given a tool that is commensurate in value with the employer's trust in their employees. That is, they are not entitled to anything more complicated than a shovel. In Biryulyovo, Tajiks scattered the reagent with a shovel from a basin, which they found in some garbage dump and put it on wheels from an old baby carriage. The sidewalk turned out to be "bald patches": somewhere the reagent was thick, and somewhere empty. Because of this, slides of salt in a wet puddle alternated underfoot with sections of an excellent skating rink. However, this is relatively good: in Zheleznodorozhny, snow is not removed at all.

The problem is different: we don't have snow all year round. Therefore, in the remaining seasons of the year, the crowds of communal "professionals" must be occupied with something. In the spring, as soon as the snow melts, they begin to rake the grass that has survived the winter, finishing it off for reliability. In addition, they paint the fences in yellow-green tones. After they destroy the remnants of the grass, and raise into the air clouds of dust mixed with winter reagents, animal feces and exhaust products from cars, they begin to organize new lawns of their land brought for this. The land has to be imported regularly - after all, last year's winter grass, and then such "care" does not experience. Since the new layer of earth falls above the curb stones, the rain is washed out into the sewer, clogging the drain.

From May to October, the "professionals" of landscaping begin a new important suffering: they destroy the newly created lawns. According to the rules (and not perfect anyway), lawns can only be mowed to a height of 5-8 cm, no more than once every 10-15 days. In this case, park grasses are not subject to destruction. We are mowing to zero, right on the ground, raising clouds of dust. Never and no one thinks at what height it is possible and necessary to mow the lawn. But he is an ecological system - something much more complex than granite tiles. Mowing rules, for example, change depending on when it last rained. If it has not rained for a long time, then the mown lawn must be watered without fail. But no one is watering ordinary courtyard lawns, while mowing is carried out almost daily, with some wild frenzy. One gets the feeling that former doctors and teachers from Central Asia want to recreate deserts and sands dear to their hearts in Moscow courtyards.

As soon as the lawn grass resource is depleted, the "pros" begin to destroy the soil resource. More precisely, they remove fallen leaves. According to the same Moscow rules, this process is regulated. So - it is FORBIDDEN to remove foliage in yards. It can only be removed 10-25 meters in the right-of-way for highways with heavy traffic. Why is fallen leaves important? This is a layer that prevents the soil from drying out, preventing all moisture from evaporating. In addition, this layer creates an environment and food for beneficial insects such as earthworms, which in turn help preserve the properties of the soil. So this useful foliage is ripped off with a rake, taking with it the grass weakened by eternal haircuts. By the fall we have bald dead lawns to repeat the cycle of barbarism next year.

Once again, it is important to understand: Tajik "professionals" from the beautification are a self-sustaining malicious system, self-contained. They destroy soil, destroy green spaces, spoil sewers, saline the ground, create clouds of toxic dust that we all breathe. There is no benefit from their work - only new work arises for themselves. That is, these migrant workers heroically save us from the consequences of their own insane activities. All these dances have nothing to do with technology, or even with our mossy rules of care and improvement!

In New York, in the evenings, I see cars with people busy with watering beds and flowers. The planted flowers are looked after, they are regularly replaced. I will not undertake to assess where these people came to the city, but at least they have all the gardening tools and know how to use them correctly. No dirt or dust remains behind them - only fresh and beautiful flower beds. These are not "generalists" who treat people at home, and then, depending on the season of the year, raise dust, plant lawns, remove leaves, dispense reagents … The fact is that there are no such "generalists" in the United States at all. Here they already understood (or maybe they had no illusions at all) that nothing costs the city as much as cheap labor. Every business has technology, and learning technology costs money. Breaking technology costs even more money.

Strictly speaking, this simple truth is the economic basis for the rejection of slave labor. With the development of mankind, the number of spheres of activity in which simple, non-specialized, unskilled labor was sharply reduced. Breaking technology, or following outdated technology, was too costly. Therefore, there is a great need for qualified and trained professionals - and this does not fit well with the possibilities of the slave economy. We are constantly being told: "Our compatriots just do not want to work in low-profile jobs, so we have to hire guest workers." It's a lie. Our compatriots do not want to work as slaves. They don't want to be "generalists". But it is quite possible to find companies that will effectively do a certain range of work - for example, professionally take care of lawns -. It manages to do this in richer and more well-fed New York. People are ready to work professionally - even when cleaning the territory. People are not ready to be a disenfranchised gray mass driven by their boss anywhere - either to vote at public hearings, or to clear snow.

The reason for the dust in the city is essentially the same as the reason for the poor-quality laying of paving slabs: the gradual rollback of the Russian economy towards slaveholding relations. Depending on how disastrously this or that branch of the economy develops, its economy develops as disastrously. Some areas of our activity are completely market-based (IT in a significant part), somewhere the Soviet planned economy is still operating (for example, the military-industrial complex, part of mechanical engineering, oil and gas), somewhere we slipped into a subsistence economy, where there are no opportunities competition, but there are explicit or hidden forms of barter exchange (in agriculture, in part). And, probably, there is nothing more disastrous and lonely in Russia - than the sector of municipal economy and housing and communal services. Therefore, it is not surprising that its economy slipped into a slave economy.

In order to assess one of the important reasons for what is happening, it is worth looking at the map of Moscow, in comparison, say, with Perm. I borrowed footage from Mikhail Yakimov. Pay attention - on the maps presented, the plots are assigned to the owners. If in Perm the courtyard territories are assigned to the corresponding houses, and the residents of the house are the owners of the land on which they live, then in Moscow the property of the residents of the city ends with the porch of the house: some outside forces, such as district administrations, control and manage around.

This is a map of sites in Moscow:

This is a map of the sites in Perm:

That is, residents of Moscow do not manage the lawn at their own home. Is it any wonder that there is idiotically distributed land for parking, that no one will ever build a collective garage for bicycles or a warehouse for unnecessary things (a common thing in Europe), is it any wonder that there are slaves of Mr. desert? Until the inhabitants of the city are the owners of the land on which they live, there can be no improvement of the territories. Until the land has an owner, there can be no responsible attitude towards its use, no responsible attitude towards improvement (I do not want to say that this condition is sufficient - and that everything is great in Perm now - but it is necessary).

Now the city lives in a strange state - the customer of the improvement is the Department of Housing and Public Utilities, and not the residents of the city. And this department, of course, has no interest in trying to improve the efficiency of the economy in this area. Otherwise, Mr. Biryukov will become poorer and will be left out of business at all - since this "man cut from a single piece of wood" does not know how to manage the market economy.

The collapse of the existing state system will not begin in Bolotnaya Square - it will begin in Moscow courtyards, when they have owners. It is the class of small owners - the middle class - that is capable of becoming a customer and a conductor of qualitative changes in the state economy. And without changing the economy, any political superstructure will deteriorate the very next day after the change. Therefore, I am very indifferent to RosZhKH or RosYama - they do not form a class of owners, they simply serve to educate consumers. This does not change the economics of the existing relationship. I think that a feasible and understandable task for civil society in the country, which will be actively supported by a wide range of the population, is a departure from the slave system in the improvement and housing and communal services of cities, with the squeezing out of slave migrant workers, feeding the pockets of ineffective officials. You can talk as much as you like about "electronic democracy" - but the subject for conversation will not appear until there is no normal class of owners in the country - without it, neither "electronic" nor "sovereign" democracy is in demand. So it goes.