http://www.kzblog.net/2006/09/27/wef-competitiveness-report/ An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:30:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.kzblog.net/2006/09/27/wef-competitiveness-report/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Customer Service! EDITED 19.10.06 | KZBlog Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:35:14 +0000 http://www.kzblog.net/1970/01/01/wef-competitiveness-report/#comment-8 [...] My recent post on competitiveness and the consumer economy got a few requests to expand on the cable company. To me, this is a scene that could simply never happen in the US. I don’t want to engage in amateur anthropology and analyze what it is about Kazakhstan that makes this sort of thing acceptable, but I assure you this is the zenith of a series of such experiences, as we have worked to furnish our humble apartment. [...]<!-- X-spaminator-strike: whitelist, -3 --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: bad referer - spambot?, 3 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: crap flooding, 3 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> [...] My recent post on competitiveness and the consumer economy got a few requests to expand on the cable company. To me, this is a scene that could simply never happen in the US. I don’t want to engage in amateur anthropology and analyze what it is about Kazakhstan that makes this sort of thing acceptable, but I assure you this is the zenith of a series of such experiences, as we have worked to furnish our humble apartment. [...]

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