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"I lived in a country that had something very similar..." "You could go to jail for not working in these times, so people pretended to work, but they weren't r
by mnsc 9y ago
"I lived in a country that had something very similar..."
"You could go to jail for not working in these times, so people pretended to work, but they weren't really working."
That is not the ideal way to implement UBI imho.
- ajuc 9y agoYeah I'm listing the differences. Still both communism and UBI eliminated the negative consequences of not working.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoBut under Polish communism, did you get more money for working, and was that money useful? UBI is just a basic minimum, it isn't likely to satisfy most people like a minimum wage job at McDs isn't.
- ajuc 9y agoNot working was a crime, money was useless past the "enough to pay bills" point. But it didn't started that way, it got progressively worse, and I think UBI can have the same result if it lowers the output enough.
- AstralStorm 9y agoThe money as it is was not too useful. Until the grand USSR food crunch things worked out relatively fine for most of Poland. (But not most of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Latvia as far as I'm aware) Reasons for that failure are too complex for the post but paying for non-work was not really major one of them. However the industries stagnated and once competition went on they died. Not to mention scandalous sales of critical companies just to make them private.