If your employees make more on unemployment-You're not a job creator-You're a poverty exploiter.

[kpete]

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Ezra Klein at The NY Times.

...I suspect the real political problem for a guaranteed income isn’t the costs, but the benefits. A policy like this would give workers the power to make real choices. They could say no to a job they didn’t want, or quit one that exploited them. They could, and would, demand better wages, or take time off to attend school or simply to rest. When we spoke, Hamilton tried to sell it to me as a truer form of capitalism. “People can’t reap the returns of their effort without some baseline level of resources,” he said. “If you lack basic necessities with regards to economic well-being, you have no agency. You’re dictated to by others or live in a miserable state.”

But those in the economy with the power to do the dictating profit from the desperation of low-wage workers. One man’s misery is another man’s quick and affordable at-home lunch delivery. “It is a fact that when we pay workers less and don’t have social insurance programs that, say, cover Uber and Lyft drivers, we are able to consume goods and services at lower prices,” Hilary Hoynes, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley, where she also co-directs the Opportunity Lab, told me.

This is the conversation about poverty that we don’t like to have: We discuss the poor as a pity or a blight, but we rarely admit that America’s high rate of poverty is a policy choice, and there are reasons we choose it over and over again. We typically frame those reasons as questions of fairness (“Why should I have to pay for someone else’s laziness?”) or tough-minded paternalism (“Work is good for people, and if they can live on the dole, they would”). But there’s more to it than that.

MORE:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/13/opinion/stimulus-unemployment-republicans-poverty.html
via:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/13/2035070/-Ezra-Klein-on-Poverty?utm_campaign=recent

[marble falls]

1. Great billboard and bumpersticker.

[Nevilledog]

2. K & R

[BigmanPigman]

3. Reminds me of the Gilded Age where the Rockefellers, etc

basically paid workers slave wages and treated them as slaves. We need to get back into busting the companies like Amazon, Big Tech, etc. We must break this system that has been worsening since the 1970s. Tax the rich!!! No more loopholes!!!

[Hekate]

9. This is the Second Gilded Age -- has been for awhile. Joe's right: we need the unions back...

Desperately.

[BigmanPigman]

10. You're right. Today's "1%" is the same as

the Gilded Age's robber barons. We need to bust them up and build unions stronger. Reagun was the final straw in the unions and it definitely made a difference in how we live. I hate that bastard like you wouldn't believe.

[SoonerPride]

4. Kick and Rec

People should read this.

[JoeOtterbein]

5. K n R ! Thanks for posting! nt

[summer_in_TX]

6. America's high rate of poverty is a policy choice,

and there are reasons we choose it over and over again.

I love the meme. So true.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. someone whom i knew before he went to the dark side , called these slave wages .

[Hekate]

8. KnR

[WarGamer]

11. +1000 nt

[OldBaldy1701E]

12. Anyone left in our society

Who does not know this already is the one doing the exploiting. To admit that this is a policy choice is to admit the American Dream is a lie. No one with anything in the ring is going to admit to this.

[ck4829]

13. K&R

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