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Have you considered the welfare state itself and not tech may be responsible? I would hire someone to do all my household chores but the modern welfare state he
by jquery 16y ago
Have you considered the welfare state itself and not tech may be responsible? I would hire someone to do all my household chores but the modern welfare state here in San Francisco makes that prohibitively expensive at my income level, and simultaneously has a very high opportunity cost for the person I would employ if they are collecting welfare benefits such as unemployment.
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoOne of the reasons immigration is such a tough issue is that illegal immigrants are by and large good, hard-working people who are willing to work at less than minimum wage and without benefits. So you got 5 million of these guys, all working in some kind of quasi-invisible status. Meanwhile the guy that runs the local business runs into all sorts of complexity when trying to hire a "regular" employee. As the disparity continues to grow between the minimum amount that businesses must provide and the ability of undocumented workers to provide cheap labor, unemployment will probably trend up. (Just pulling that conclusion out of my ass, but it tracks with what I am seeing as I travel and talk to people running businesses) I should note, this is a vicious cycle. There is a feedback loop
- ugh 16y agoThe system wasn’t changed in any dramatic way, if anything the scope of the welfare state was reduced in the last ten years. I can’t give you a detailed rundown of all the changes in the last fifty years, though. And as I said, everything considered Germany didn’t become poorer in the last fifty years, rather much richer.