Originally posted by: AssertnFailure
the communist system makes perfect sense......
keep in mind that the purpose of doing missions is to make money for the village, as the hokage put it. Kind of like working for the greater benefit of the country, like the Soviet Union. You are assigned missions that are appropriate for your skill, just as SU government assigned their civilians to the jobs they were suited for. And this would also explain how someone like naruto could live on his own for 12 years before he even started doing missions. And if ninjas were paid a different way, like commission for example, then it wouldnt make sense that high level jounins like kakashi would willingly deal with C and D rank missions while babysitting genins when he could most likely be making a much better living off of A and B rank missions with other jounins