> "It's hard when the overarching belief is that the unemployed is unemployed 100% because of their own free will. Bad business conditions mean no jobs, and tha

> "It's hard when the overarching belief is that the unemployed is unemployed 100% because of their own free will. Bad business conditions mean no jobs, and that's often not a worker's fault. There's another point, which is even more sinister. The unemployed offer liquidity in the employment pool, which offer more flexibility for the growth of the machine. Local communities that are more self-sufficient would want to take care of their own. The emergent properties of the anonymous machine see unemployment as a variable to be optimized.