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by waxymonkeyfrog 11y ago
If you think we should provide support mechanisms like activity centers for the unemployed, I think you'll love the fifth section of the piece where I say we should provide support mechanisms like activity centers for the unemployed! I
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by waxymonkeyfrog 11y ago
Unemployment clearly leads to degradation, both of cities (Youngstown) and of individuals. The question I think we're debating is whether the flow of causality goes unemployment->poverty->social degradation (this is your case, I
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by waxymonkeyfrog 11y ago
Sorry I didn't mean to suggest that at all. When I wrote "the ills of unemployment go well beyond the loss of income" that was my way of saying loss of income is the first-order outcome of losing a job, but there are more com
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by waxymonkeyfrog 11y ago
Great point. This gets at the impossible endogeneity of the subject. Are the jobless miserable because they're poor, lonely, bored, or distraught? Well, perhaps they are lonely and bored because they can't afford to socialize. A
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by waxymonkeyfrog 11y ago
Hi Falcolas, this is Derek Thompson, the author of the piece. 1. The quick answer is that we don't know how much of the misery of not working is from the financial shortfall of unemployment, vs the failure to meet a cultural expectatio
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by waxymonkeyfrog 11y ago
Joe, this is Derek, the author of the piece linked above. I think you make a good point. When I first heard Will explain "earning to give," a part of me considered it off-putting and radical, but I've come to see it as an exp
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