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We already subsidize employers of low-wage and part-time workers; Wal*Mart is infamous for encouraging its workers to apply for food stamps, for example. This
by arebop 11y ago
We already subsidize employers of low-wage and part-time workers; Wal*Mart is infamous for encouraging its workers to apply for food stamps, for example.
This outcome is even implicit in the common observation that UBI could obviate the minimum wage, making it legal to employ low-skilled workers and improving their dignity by erasing the difference between those on the dole and those who work for a living.
- crdoconnor 11y agoI'd rather see a job guarantee via a public works program like we had in the 1930s. It's not like those robots who supposedly stole our jobs are actually fixing creaking US infrastructure. It's just falling apart.