Production is the basis of morale.

The fastest possible way for a senior to get into trouble is to fail to get in ethics on a downstat junior.

If one can get a unit producing and actually accomplishing worthwhile production, then their morale will rise.

The US “solves” all this with huge government payoffs and propitiation. And look at the upsurge of riots.

Thus, it does not matter too much how one starts a unit producing so long as it does get started.

Capitalism works only on the reward side. It takes two sides to make a game.

I was given a good example of this with just one person who has been on MO lines. She is actually well now. She is miserable. There is nothing wrong with her at all except she is out of the action and is not producing anything.

If an I/C lets ethics go out on his juniors, he pulls the rug out from under himself — and slaughters the juniors also.

This has been noted in other fields. The “idle rich” are the most miserable people you ever wanted to meet. “To Have and Have Not” or some such title by Hemingway talks about it for the best part of a book.

A team is composed of teammates. Those who mess up the team aren’t teammates.

Orgs are teams and all of Scientology is a team. It takes teamwork and backup to make things go right and stay right.

[Note: The original mimeo copies of this policy letter incorrectly labeled it as “Esto Series 41” which has been corrected above.]