Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial

Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by dane-pgp on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:19PM (#24215789)

> Which is why Communism doesn't work. If what you get has no relationship to the work you do, there is no reason to do the work.

It may surprise people to learn that even the Soviets effectively acknowledged the validity of that second statement. According to the 1936 Constitution of the USSR:

"ARTICLE 118. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to work, that is, are guaranteed the right to employment and payment for their work in accordance With its quantity and quality."

https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/36cons04....

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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:28PM (#24215941)

The problem, of course, being that they weren't using anything like market pricing to allocate the rewards, so in practice they went to people based on corruption and politics.

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