Don’t work? Welcome to a jail.
Perhaps there are many weird laws around the world.
My mum told me that there was a law in the USSR/Russia according to which all Soviet citizens had to work.
Otherwise, they considered being parasites. A punishment was strict: 15 days of social work for the first time and a prison if a person would continue not to work.
There were police patrols which stopped people on streets and checked supermarkets, cinema and etc. If a person worked shifts and thus, could legally have a day free, she or he should have shown a document which could confirm his/her working schedule.
Nowadays, people might invest to any business and live getting dividends which is considered to be a norm in a frame of Russian laws.
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Don’t work? Welcome to a jail. (Technically, jail is where you go while waiting for your sentencing or serving a short sentence, and prison is where you go after you've been found guilty of a crime or are serving a long sentence, but colloquially they're used interchangeably so this is still right. Just letting you know.)
Perhaps there are many weird laws around the world.My mum told me that there was a law in the USSR/Russia according to which all Soviet citizens had to work.
Otherwise, they were considered being parasites. A The punishment was strict: 15 days of social work ("community service" in the USA, it may be "social work" in the UK, I don't know) for the first-time offenses and a prison if a the person would continued not to work. (We can never combine "if + will/would." "If" can only be followed by present/past tense verbs, depending on the context. People do say things like "If you would just tell me" and "If I would have known" for emphasis but it's not really correct)
There were police patrols which stopped people on the streets and checked supermarkets, cinemas, and etc. If a person worked shifts and thus, could legally have a day free, she or he (usually "he or she") should have shown had to show a document which could confirm his/her working schedule.
Nowadays, people might invest to any in a business and live getting off of dividends, which is considered to be a norm in a frame of under Russian laws. (We can use the singular "law" if we're talking about the system in general. I.e. "There are laws [specific] against this sort of thing" vs. "US law [general] recognizes a person's right to..."
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