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I prefer to work and get my money to invest in my gold-Raw Material-etc. I can spend the whole fair wage if I want ot save it to invest some money in the future! 🙂

I would choose to work in the IA commune simply because:

10 Q7s would cost ~100cc.... that's a much greater value than the average salary which is maybe 25cc if you really shop around every country.

Likewise 40cc is much better than the average salary.

Now how is this possible? Well the absence of income tax and the fact that the commune operator is working at zero profit has something to do with it, but even then in the case of the IA this is an ambitious output. In fact it's so ambitious that I choose to work a private waged job to reduce the pressure on the system which is arguably intended more as a military asset then a viable economic model.

is IA getting funds for the commune by the government? just curious...

Well the IA is a part of the government under the direct control of the Minister of Defence, but as far as I know it is self-sufficient. I could be wrong about that though. Either way it's heavily dependent on volunteers of time and assets.

If I had to guess though I would say that the government needs to fund the raw materials needed to manufacture and some of the cost of supplies. A lot of the efficiency comes from high quality factories which are made available and operated by volunteers, and through those volunteers taking citizenship in countries with favourable resource bonuses.

I hear Conway every week liquidate EVERYTHING he has and use that to finance IA

The government does spend some money on the IA, I think during MUFC's last term about 7k was being spent on the IA's commune system. These figures will have changed quite a bit since then.

It's a far more viable economic module: Private sector supplying is far more expensive to the point that it might actually be cheaper to hire mercs rather than supply soldiers in critical battles. Sweet could probably run the numbers there, though you'd have to make assumptions about how long cheaper weapons supplies would last.

Good point. But when I was talking about the viability of the program I just meant to refer to the logistics of managing the number of soldiers we have now given that it's just one or two volunteers providing communes. As a military asset the IA communes are permitted to go beyond what would be ideal for breaking even/what you would expect from a "private" commune.

Good article that ties in with this one here: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/taxes-responsibility-and-common-sense-2300733/1/20 V&S on newspaper title alone. I've been spending some time on this, and I'll get back to this later tonight

The main reason communes can offer their recruits so much is due to the generosity of the commune's leaders. Things like providing wrm from private infrastructure.
But yes IA is government subsidized to an extent

That's how communes have always functioned, the generosity of its membership and management. I worked for a year and a half without pay in a commune back in the Labour Party days for instance. It's that committment to our fellow citizen that makes the eCommunists truly great haha

I joined the LPA commune largely for ideological reasons, though it's economically a better option than shopping around for a job, giving a set amount of Q7s daily. I also run a half and half one and the ordinary worker half is much more profitable than the commune part!

The only reason I have a job, to be honest, is to pick up a Worker Medal every thirty days. I buy just enough gold every two weeks to keep me functional, about $12 a crack, usually when the War Stash and the 50% More Gold offers are up.

By definition, an individualist should seek out the best offer for him personally, without consulting the needs of his country or unit. If he feels he gets more from a private company than a commune, or vice versa, that's his call. Me, I've worked at the same job since the day I got here, got an occasional raise, but I realize these wages can't really buy me much, so the only real value of having the job comes from the Worker Medal and the gold that comes with it.

I left the commune system because I was tired of constantly losing the job, then having to pay to travel somewhere to apply for another short term job. The current employer I have pays 25 IEP/day. That is less than what the commune pays, but he's on time with the paycheck, also.