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iskander
on March 22, 2013
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Unfit for work
> as long as people are being paid, why not pay them for "unprofitable" work?
What you're describing is very similar to the "full employment" of Soviet bloc countries.
lukifer
on March 22, 2013
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So what? A thousands other details of politics, culture, and economic structure are vastly different. Soviets also had police and military and schools: should we automatically not do those things either?
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What you're describing is very similar to the "full employment" of Soviet bloc countries.