One of the bait-and-switches that JG opponents make, in addition to pretending a JG and UI are competing rather than complementary policies, is to claim in one breath that unconditional income is necessary to recognize and reward all the forms of informal labor not captured by a
JG, and then in the next claim that there simply cannot be enough productive work for everyone to be employed. It allows them to claim that they are truly committed to remunerating labor, even as they are, regrettably, concluding some people are just too unproductive and useless
To ever work. And of course, hidden underneath it all is a theory of "productivity" that has no problem with the private sector employing people in all sorts of socially handful jobs, and no problem with the human costs of unemployment beyond merely the lack of income. Ultimately
It comes down the soft bigotry of low expectations - the "can we really be expected to teach 'those kids' how to read?" kind of social defeatism.
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
Harmful*
