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Yes, the four million in Britain who have never had a job in their lives are immensely productive and make an outstanding contributon to cultural life. Five mil
by vixen99 13y ago
Yes, the four million in Britain who have never had a job in their lives are immensely productive and make an outstanding contributon to cultural life. Five million would be even better.
- rbanffy 13y agoThey never had a job, but, still, they need to make ends meet. They live under the pressure to make some money. Removing that pressure may allow them to find more interesting things to do.
- nhaehnle 13y agoI am assuming your comment is meant to be sarcastic. Be careful about assigning cause and consequence properly. Mass unemployment is an involuntary, macroeconomic problem. [1] I am not an expert in the British economy, so I don't know whether your numbers make sense. But just taking them at face value, it is quite likely that those millions of people are unproductive precisely because they have never had a job. So it's not their fault. Incidentally, I partly agree with you in that I think that basic income advocates are too starry-eyed about what people would do on basic income. This is part of why I prefer a Job Guarantee, as I have explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5931534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5931534 [1] http://alittleecon.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/the-parable-of-100-dogs-and-92-bones-why-the-work-programme-cant-work/ http://alittleecon.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/the-parable-of-1...