Quote Originally Posted by BanginJimmy View Post
BTW, your experiment has already been tried several times, most notably in the former USSR. It did not end well.
In the USSR, the government controlled the means of production. That is not what I proposed here. Food, shelter, and healthcare would still be privately owned, the government would just pay to buy a certain amount of those items to distribute to the populace. Do you have any other examples of where this has been tried with an otherwise capitalistic society?