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Self-employment is promoted under communism. I’m not a communist, but look up Juche in North Korea & similar concepts in the USSR...

You would get sent to the gulag etc if you refused work while on welfare. If you could prove self employment as a tradesperson etc, you were allowed to keep plying your trade