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It seems unreasonable to demand that person A gets to murder person B unless person B gives person A their property while simultaneously saying person B isn't a

It seems unreasonable to demand that person A gets to murder person B unless person B gives person A their property while simultaneously saying person B isn't allowed to murder person A for theirs. We have private charity to help fill the gap between a skills/resource deficiency and a paying job.

gadflyinyoureye 3y ago
We tried that. It collapsed during the Great Depression. If you look at the real unemployment rate is presently around 7%. During the 2020 downturn it was around the same as Great Depression. https://www.thebalancemoney.com/what-is-the-real-unemployment-rate-3306198 https://www.thebalancemoney.com/what-is-the-real-unemploymen... I want private charity to work. Sadly I think you’ll need to have a public private partnership.
- hellojesus 3y ago
  The length of the great depression was a direct cause of failed government intervention, first by Hoover then by FDR. This article does a great job explaining why: https://fee.org/articles/what-caused-the-great-depression/ https://fee.org/articles/what-caused-the-great-depression/ Here's a quote related to the affect of FDR's imposed federal minimum wage; the consequences are similar to what I've argued above: """ The President’s Re-employment Agreement called for a minimum wage of 400 an hour ($12 to $15 a week in smaller communities), a 35-hour work week for industrial workers and 40 hours for white collar workers, and a ban on all youth labor. This was a naive attempt at "increasing purchasing power" by increasing payrolls. But, the immense increase in business costs through shorter hours and higher wage rates worked naturally as an anti revival measure. After passage of the Act, unemployment rose to nearly 13 million. The South, especially, suffered severely from the minimum wage provisions: the Act forced 500,000 Blacks out of work. """ Here is a paper that argues New Deal spending crowded out 30% of faith-based benevolent charity: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272706001526 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...
  - gadflyinyoureye 3y ago
    Thank you. I look forward to reading them.

gadflyinyoureye 3y ago

We tried that. It collapsed during the Great Depression. If you look at the real unemployment rate is presently around 7%. During the 2020 downturn it was around the same as Great Depression. https://www.thebalancemoney.com/what-is-the-real-unemployment-rate-3306198 https://www.thebalancemoney.com/what-is-the-real-unemploymen... I want private charity to work. Sadly I think you’ll need to have a public private partnership.

hellojesus 3y ago
The length of the great depression was a direct cause of failed government intervention, first by Hoover then by FDR. This article does a great job explaining why: https://fee.org/articles/what-caused-the-great-depression/ https://fee.org/articles/what-caused-the-great-depression/ Here's a quote related to the affect of FDR's imposed federal minimum wage; the consequences are similar to what I've argued above: """ The President’s Re-employment Agreement called for a minimum wage of 400 an hour ($12 to $15 a week in smaller communities), a 35-hour work week for industrial workers and 40 hours for white collar workers, and a ban on all youth labor. This was a naive attempt at "increasing purchasing power" by increasing payrolls. But, the immense increase in business costs through shorter hours and higher wage rates worked naturally as an anti revival measure. After passage of the Act, unemployment rose to nearly 13 million. The South, especially, suffered severely from the minimum wage provisions: the Act forced 500,000 Blacks out of work. """ Here is a paper that argues New Deal spending crowded out 30% of faith-based benevolent charity: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272706001526 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...
- gadflyinyoureye 3y ago
  Thank you. I look forward to reading them.