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Income can be generated politically, see e.g. Soviet command economy.


In Soviet economy virtually all people had a job though. In communist Poland where I grew, safe for the years of martial law in mid 80s everyone who wanted a job had one.


In our modern economy everyone that wants a job has one. Unemployment is extremely low and has been.


That's only true of the US in this very moment, it's not a property of capitalism per se.




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