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No I mean strictly less willing to do hard labor. The social safety nets in America may not be great, but most people would prefer to deal with that rather than
by war1025 8y ago
No I mean strictly less willing to do hard labor. The social safety nets in America may not be great, but most people would prefer to deal with that rather than do back breaking labor. And if you are not in that situation, you would rather do a different job that would pay equivalently. It used to be that your options were do what you had to or starve. Not starving is a good motivator.
- darawk 8y ago> No I mean strictly less willing to do hard labor. That isn't a thing, unless you're saying that there is no price whatsoever at which people would be willing to do hard labor.
- war1025 8y agoThere is no point at which people would be doing to both do the labor and others would still buy the resulting product at an increased price. You are dealing in a hypothetical where there aren't market forces at work.
- darawk 8y ago> There is no point at which people would be doing to both do the labor and others would still buy the resulting product at an increased price. Exactly! Which means the good or service shouldn't be produced. > You are dealing in a hypothetical where there aren't market forces at work. Erm, no. This is what market forces are. Market forces decide what is and what is not produced, via exactly this mechanism. This is the very essence of what a market is.