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They don't need to, they work anyway since we are still living in a capitalist nation where working pays off, that goes for both Europe and USA, you get supported by the state so you don't starve if you don't work but people still prefer working over not working thanks to the extra benefits you get.

Communist nations force people to work, there is no need for that in capitalist nations, people work for the extra rewards.



>They don't need to

Yeah they do. I live in a socialist European country and if you refuse to work you'll end up on the streets and only live off charity of others or starve/freeze to death.

You won't get any state welfare if you're decaled medically fit to work and refuse to take work that get sent to you by the unemployment agency, like for example working in a warehouse or in an Amazon fulfilment center. Nobody would willfully take those shit jobs if they wouldn't have to work.

Yeah, there's some people who made a lifestyle out of gaming the system who choose not to work and still get welfare but that's a minority.


> You won't get any state welfare if you're decaled medically fit to work and refuse to take work that get sent to you by the unemployment agency

That depends on the country, but in the USA you get food stamps regardless of anything else so you wont starve. Then you can live on public lands in a tent or so, many do that in California.


So the US has more socialism than some EU countries?




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