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You don't have to replace them, you just assure a minimum standard of living available to all individuals. That should be enough for basic necessities but who w
by RealityVoid 9y ago
You don't have to replace them, you just assure a minimum standard of living available to all individuals. That should be enough for basic necessities but who wants to work will still work.
- rayiner 9y agoI’m not talking about safety nets. I’m talking about this assertion by the author: > Of course, if you saw it in your own country, you’d recognize it for what it was—people working their asses off, even well into old age, not out of some perverse industriousness, but simply because they’ve gotta eat. Even if Japan had a more robust safety net, people would still need to work to eat (and they have welfare). Not necessarily any given person, but people generally. Indeed, we would be counting on exactly the opposite point from what the author makes: that most people would be industrious enough to work these jobs notwithstanding the fact that they could eat if they didn’t. Particular in Japan, which is facing an unprecedented imbalance between working age and non-working age people.