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      • Anivia@feddit.org
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        8 hours ago

        At least in Germany you can be unemployed for life and get enough money from the government to barely buy food and other necessities, with rent, heating and electricity being paid by the government.

        So although the food isn’t free you can get it without ever having to work a single hour in your life

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          13 minutes ago

          what a coincidence, living in Germany I know that unemployment benefits last 6 months if you previously worked and paid taxes

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        16 hours ago

        Some places have charities that manage to roughly feed everyone. Not good food, not weed, but you won’t just die. I believe USA have pretty bad coverage on this front, but I might be wrong. I’ve heard something about feeding people for free being illegal somewhere? Like that can’t be right

        Also some countries have social funds that will keep you fed for a few years after loosing employment, so this kind of things can be done temporarily