The "market" is skills value based, and concludes basic labors are near worthless due to near infinite supply, despite the value of that labor being considerabl

The "market" is skills value based, and concludes basic labors are near worthless due to near infinite supply, despite the value of that labor being considerably greater when valued in terms of its benefit to others. Put another way, "the market" in it's current form very seriously undervalues basic labors. Making extreme claims does not bolster your points here. Tom Brady can definitely pay their landscaper enough to exist and show up for work same as McDees can pay their people enough to exist and show up for work. I made no Marxist argument. I did argue we need to recognize the inherent cost of people and value labor in ways that account for those costs. Or! Say we don't. Then we accept a large number of us require assistance to make it, right? Which is it? And if we go the assistance route, then we also need to quit fucking with people simply doing as we compel them to do. Getting assistance while also laboring a reasonable time at a wage below what it costs to exist and show up for work should be an ordinary, accepted thing. No shame, no hassles, just ordinary and it's not. What we currently do is push people off assistance hard, and frequently, while also underpaying them, expecting magic to happen and they suddenly are just doing OK when we know too many of them won't be. Unacceptable.