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"If you want to make more money, if you want to improve the quality of your life, then you can seek progressively higher paying work to do so." That's a fallac
by neilwilson 10y ago
"If you want to make more money, if you want to improve the quality of your life, then you can seek progressively higher paying work to do so."
That's a fallacy of composition. Not everybody can, because there aren't enough jobs to go around. So about 5% are always permanently in poverty.
Fundamentally you need to change the labour market from a buyers to a sellers market. Until you do that, nothing changes.
- ThomPete 10y agoI think the point is that it will always be beneficial to work. Whether people choose to do so and can find something right there is another discussion but with a base income thats livable you have a base and every thing you do whether that is only one more job is going to make you a little richer instead of the current system where it's all based on conditional thinking. To give an example. In Denmark the book that determines the laws when it comes to unemployment benefits is 26.000 pages. That's a lot of bureaucracy which can be killed right there.
- eeZah7Ux 10y agoActually it would make working more beneficial by getting rid of the terrible, exploitative jobs that exists only because many people are desperate enough to take while removing the welfare trap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap