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Pardon me for including poker in a post on the politics forum.

I made my first visit to Foxwoods this past week playing only $1-2 NL. The structure of the dealer's compensation is shared tips for all, all shifts, all abilities, all limits. From each according to his abilities 100%. I have 12 years of casino poker experience and I can unreservedly state that the dealers I saw at Foxwood were collectively among the very worst. Slow and often less than friendly was the rule. Incompetent was common. When the monetary motivation for personal high performance is removed service is usually awful.

Upon investigation, I believe that the best dealers are assigned to higher limit rake games and the worst are sent to deal time games such as mine. Also the better dealers take graveyard shifts, which pay the same and are often less busy.

Next - Cuban health care.

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I agree with your overall point (people normally don't work as hard for a collective)--but it's a business, not a state. And judging that Foxwoods is one of the very few casinos that could be called a household name, I'm sure their big managerial decisions, such as the distribution of money among its staff, aren't too misguided. But as always, I could be wrong.

And lastly, slippery slope arguments are usually fallacious on their face, but going from the business practices of a casino to Cuban health care is like a slip 'n slide down Kilamanjaro.