Quote Originally Posted by bu villain View Post
Sure, but that's where the similarities end so I don't think you can draw too many conclusions from the USSR and apply them here. We can discuss some overlap though. For example, there was a black market for goods and services in the USSR and yet you said you think people here would be content with basics and wouldn't be willing to work for more here. Why do you think a black market would arise in a country where it was not allowed and a market would not survive in a country that did allow it?
The black market was there to provide things that were not legally available, not just things that people wanted more of.

Look at the dependent class of Americans right now. How much ambition do you see from them? Why would giving them even less inventive to work bring more of them to the workforce? Remember, no other laws change so there is still section 8 housing and there is still free cell phones.