The Busboy caused the firing. George and Kramer visit the busboy's ramshackle apartment to apologize, only to accidentally leave the door open, letting his cat out. A few days later, the busboy comes to see George, and tells him that there was a gas line explosion at the restaurant, killing five employees, including the busboy hired to replace him. Moreover, his search for his cat was both successful and led him to stumble upon a better paying job. He thanks George for inadvertently saving his life and getting him a better job. Elaine faces having her boyfriend Ed stay with her for
He who does not work, neither shall he eat thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers. According to Vladimir Lenin, "He who does not work shall not eat" is a necessary principle under socialism, the preliminary phase of the evolution towards communist society. The phrase appears in his 1917 work, "The State and Revolution". Through this slogan Lenin explains that in socialist states only productive individuals could be allowed access to the articles of consumption. In accordance with Lenin’s understanding of the socialist state, article twelve of the 1936 Soviet Constitution states: In Lenin’s writing, this was