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About poorly paid boring jobs: either they're socially necessary and will command higher wages, or they're not worth it, and we'll manage without them. The mai
by fab13n 13y ago
About poorly paid boring jobs: either they're socially necessary and will command higher wages, or they're not worth it, and we'll manage without them.
The main interest of minimal income is to shift the power balance between employer and employees: today, most employees have a choice between complying and starving. Actually in many countries they have to do both. With minimal income, it becomes a choice between compliance and comfort rather than survival. Negotiation between them and their employers can happen again (people still value comfort)
- prostoalex 13y ago> today, most employees have a choice between complying and starving Really? What's the grand total number of starvation deaths in United States or Switzerland?
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoPeople go hungry in the US. To suggest otherwise is, frankly stupid. People go hungry and people are poor enough that their main options for food are cheap, unhealthy, high caloric. So is it your contention there are no charity soup kitchens or charity groceries in the US, because you seem to imply it.
- prostoalex 13y agoUnemployment rate is not 0%. Starvation rate is 0%. Grandparent was implying that the only choices are sub-par employment or starvation, end of story, which sounded a bit sensationalist.