Re:Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (...
by inglor_cz on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:20PM
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In USSR and many other countries of the Soviet Bloc, it was also illegal not to work.
Exceptions applied (mothers with young kids, registered artists), but otherwise this was enforced and if you stayed out of work for a certain period and didn't have a valid employer stamp in your papers, you would be chucked into prison for Parasitism (that was the name of the crime).
As a result, the Bloc had almost no visible homelessness, but this kind of solution would probably not fly in the West.
Exceptions applied (mothers with young kids, registered artists), but otherwise this was enforced and if you stayed out of work for a certain period and didn't have a valid employer stamp in your papers, you would be chucked into prison for Parasitism (that was the name of the crime).
As a result, the Bloc had almost no visible homelessness, but this kind of solution would probably not fly in the West.