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Cool essay written 1930. If you get a standard income for being a citizen that gives you shelter, food, clothing, healthcare, education. You then will be work
by acscott 10y ago
Cool essay written 1930. If you get a standard income for being a citizen that gives you shelter, food, clothing, healthcare, education. You then will be working for improving the quality of those items. And there will be some people who reproduce without an economic disincentive not to. Citizenship will now be even in more demand. Workers will be motivated not out of fear of losing shelter, healthcare or food. Firing a worker will not have the responsibility of having taken food out their mouth.
We already have a population that does not work. As of Mar 2016 there are 16.6 million men age 16 to 65 not disabled not in labor force, and 28.2 million women. (44.8 m total) (from: http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab6.htm http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab6.htm) A lot of those are probably those who gave up though.
Many though are retired or in school. In 2014 ages 55 to 64, 13.8% were retired. (http://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-4/people-who-are-not-in-the-labor-force-why-arent-they-working.htm http://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-4/people-who-are-not-in-t...) (Note I consider home responsibilities as working as you would probably have to hire someone to do those if you didn't do them yourself). In 2014, both genders age 25 to 54, 1,479,000 were retired!