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Caring work like this is vastly underpaid and very critical to people's well being. Maybe if someone could lobby for a specific tax credit for people formally w

by Noos 9y ago

Caring work like this is vastly underpaid and very critical to people's well being. Maybe if someone could lobby for a specific tax credit for people formally working in caregiving for the elderly and disabled to make up for the lower income. Too often these jobs become jobs of last resort and unlike you, not everyone has high standards.

themarkn 9y ago
The overall benefits are huge: we also generate thousands of hours of volunteer service a year by helping people stay active by putting in time at foodbanks, cleaning thrift stores, what have you. Keeps everybody healthier, reduces cost to Medicaid on the back end taking care of these folks' medical needs.
davidryal 9y ago
As long as dollars are created at interest, the only jobs that will be paid well are those that make more money. Any kind of social work will always be living off those scraps in terms of ability to pay a living wage. One way to make life easier for underpaid people doing work that helps individuals but doesn't 'make' more money would be to let nonprofits issue a complementary currency and do the legwork to get it accepted for lifestyle-enhancing services that might not otherwise be available to those volunteers/employees. Wouldn't pay rent, but would let them save money on yoga classes or house cleaning or the like. Barter networks exist, as do non-profit service-based time-denominated currencies. Nobody's doing it in a clean, unified way, but that might be more likely to happen than a tax credit, given the current political environment. :-/
- themarkn 9y ago
  Wow, if the receiving businesses could write off those services provided as donations to that nonprofit, there could be some incentive on their side too to make some kind of credit/voucher system for social-good professions work out. I wonder if anything like that already exists (teacher/military discounts are close, maybe). But yeah there could really be something there if done right.

by Noos 9y ago

themarkn 9y ago

The overall benefits are huge: we also generate thousands of hours of volunteer service a year by helping people stay active by putting in time at foodbanks, cleaning thrift stores, what have you. Keeps everybody healthier, reduces cost to Medicaid on the back end taking care of these folks' medical needs.

davidryal 9y ago

As long as dollars are created at interest, the only jobs that will be paid well are those that make more money. Any kind of social work will always be living off those scraps in terms of ability to pay a living wage. One way to make life easier for underpaid people doing work that helps individuals but doesn't 'make' more money would be to let nonprofits issue a complementary currency and do the legwork to get it accepted for lifestyle-enhancing services that might not otherwise be available to those volunteers/employees. Wouldn't pay rent, but would let them save money on yoga classes or house cleaning or the like. Barter networks exist, as do non-profit service-based time-denominated currencies. Nobody's doing it in a clean, unified way, but that might be more likely to happen than a tax credit, given the current political environment. :-/

themarkn 9y ago
Wow, if the receiving businesses could write off those services provided as donations to that nonprofit, there could be some incentive on their side too to make some kind of credit/voucher system for social-good professions work out. I wonder if anything like that already exists (teacher/military discounts are close, maybe). But yeah there could really be something there if done right.