古老的苏联文化也使其前公民在二十一世纪初为华尔街做好了奇怪的准备。苏维埃控制的经济是可怕的，复杂的，但充满了漏洞。一切都稀缺。如果您知道如何获得它，一切也可以得到。君士坦丁说，我们拥有这个系统已有七十年了。人们学会围绕系统工作。您培养一类知道如何在系统上工作的人越多，您就会有更多的人知道如何做到这一点。整个苏联已有70年了，是擅长于该系统工作的人。

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(The old Soviet culture also left its former citizens oddly prepared for Wall Street in the early twenty-first century. The Soviet-controlled economy was horrible and complicated but riddled with loopholes. Everything was scarce; everything was also gettable, if you knew how to get it. We had this system for seventy years, said Constantine. People learn to work around the system. The more you cultivate a class of people who know how to work around the system, the more people you will have who know how to do it well. All of the Soviet Union for seventy years were people who are skilled at working around the system.)