Judging by the way older people treat correspondence and even verbal interactions and timing and appearances in Russia - capitalism actually alleviated this a bit.

See, in a planned economy of Soviet kind you as a worker are a resource. When you are fired from some place because they don't like you there, you are going to have hard time explaining that it wasn't a big deal to get another job (not as a janitor, I mean). And that's if they didn't write some particularly shitty thing into your labor book (there was such a thing in USSR, basically a story of all your past employments, like CV, only written by employers, which you'd bring to a new place). If they did, even becoming a janitor would be an achievement. It would be possible to become really unemployed even, and have problems with law due to this as being unemployed was illegal in USSR.

Do you prefer what I've described (no exaggerations at all, I can't make you believe me, but this is just how it normally was) to capitalism?