Eating from One Rice Bowl

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Capitalism in the Countryside
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Wealth was equally distributed without giving consideration to how much one had worked.

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<p>There are a few reasons why reform occurred in Xiangyang with regard to the bureaucracy system. There were three factors as a commune. First, wealth was equally distributed without giving consideration to how much one had worked. The second factor was blind command. For example, the cadres issued confused orders, taking actions that did not suit local circumstances like planting double cropping rice instead of single-crop rice which suited this area. Finally, the people didn't have an incentive to work hard because the equal-income paying system would not calculate how hard you worked. It is also called &quot;Da Guo Fan&quot; (eating from one rice bowl).</p>
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 Zhong Taiyin enumerates the factors that led to the reform of the commune system.