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We never stopped making things. We have farms and factories and they produce more than ever before. https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/INDPRO https:/
by yummyfajitas 11y ago
We never stopped making things. We have farms and factories and they produce more than ever before.
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/INDPRO https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/INDPRO
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/IPMAN https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/IPMAN
http://www.klamathbasincrisis.org/agriculture/2012/productivity.gif http://www.klamathbasincrisis.org/agriculture/2012/productiv...
No one is suggesting we all do each other's laundry. Instead, the article is suggesting that people currently producing nothing will do laundry for people who actually are producing things.
- pjc50 11y agosuggesting that people currently producing nothing will do laundry for people who actually are producing things This is called a "job". If we could find a job for everyone, we wouldn't be talking about unemployment. Unemployment is when people are not able to find a job.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoThe article is proposing a mechanism that would find a job for more people, reducing unemployment. It also proposes that if a person claims to be unemployed, but actually just refuses to take work, that their welfare payments should be stopped. But surely you aren't discussing those people, right?
- pjc50 11y agoThe article talks about work requirements, but does not specify a minimum wage or minimum effective wage. Is someone who is signed up for one of these task apps but only given one hour work a week "working"? The process of determining 'refusing' to take work is surprisingly fraught as well. But again the question arises: if you cut off the money that someone is using to eat, what happens to them? They do not magically find a job that pays enough to eat.