[robroys woman]

I believe the unemployment rate in the old USSR was 0%.

[VanShuyten]

“I believe the unemployment rate in the old USSR was 0%.”

They also had “social parasite” laws making it illegal to not have a job or refuse one assigned to you.

[ferret_airlift]

Correct! By law, no less. The punishment for not working was...forced labor!

[Kozak]

One of the Miracles of Communism:

“We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us”...

[j. earl carter]

I believe the unemployment rate in the old USSR was 0%.

When East Germany fell, VW agreed to take over the Trabant factory (it would have gone out of business otherwise). The first thing they had to do was lay off 2/3 of the workforce.

[Vigilanteman]

The old USSR had a standing joke. “They pretend to pay us with something of value and we pretend to work.”

[Drew68]

I believe the unemployment rate in the old USSR was 0%.

The remnants of which still exist today.

Go to a public restroom in Ukraine and you'll meet three employees. One sells you admission, the second sells you toilet paper, and the third is on mop duty.

[RedMonqey]

I’m sure back in Sander’s good friend’s country of Venezuela everyone has a job.

Well, maybe not cooks(or anyone else in the food business) but I’m sure it’s made up by the full employment in the grave diggers union....

Bet nobody’s complaining about getting ahead of that queue.

[4Liberty]