Workers' Council president Nazmija Mikulovci sees a vicious circle in the Yugoslav worker's apathy toward work and the inadequate financial reward for working. This metaphor, according to which the cause is the consequence and the consequence the cause, also fits the political history of socialist Yugoslavia. But this implies neither the kind of social stagnation in which nothing changes nor the state of affairs in which plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Rather, the vicious circle of Yugoslav politics is that the solutions which are derived to resolve social problems recreate the original problematic situation in slightly more complex form. In other words, the solutions themselves have come to perpetuate the old cleavages, the familiar divisions between ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’, and the traditional political stances that such groups assume.