格鲁乔难题在现实中的第二个体现，则是大多数共产主义国家的国民都很快发现，他们丧失自由的痛苦并没有换来更多的繁荣或者更高的生活水平。
The second application of Groucho’s question was that citizens of most Communist countries soon learned that the loss of freedom that they suffered was not compensated by greater prosperity or a higher quality of life.