> Creating more jobs for people to opt-in to only helps them. Except if the only jobs available are awful and don't actually pay enough to have a decent standa

> Creating more jobs for people to opt-in to only helps them. Except if the only jobs available are awful and don't actually pay enough to have a decent standard of living. You seem to be assuming that more available jobs of any kind = better for workers over time, but a quick review of the US labor market over the last 30 years shows this isn't really the case at all. I'm also not sure why you're bringing Japan into this discussion - its economic, demographic, and societal conditions are so different from the US that it doesn't make much sense to use it as a comparison.