Thread by @stebaraz

A proposito di salari: pezzo assolutamente da leggere.
"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./
nytimes.com/2021/06/13/opi…

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. "

"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."

"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 know well that America is full of hardworking people who are kept poor by very low wages and harsh circumstance. We know many who want a job can’t find one, and many of the jobs people can find are cruel in ways that would appall anyone sitting comfortably behind a desk."

"We know the absence of child care and affordable housing and decent public transit makes work, to say nothing of advancement, impossible for many."

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"There are services many of us enjoy now that would become rarer or costlier if workers had more bargaining power. The truth of our politics lies in the risks we refuse to accept, and it is rising worker power, not continued poverty, that we treat as intolerable."

"Progressives don’t like to talk about this. They want to say equity is great for everyone when it’s not. We need to shift our values. The capitalist class stands to lose from this policy, that’s unambiguous./

They will have better resourced workers they can’t exploit through wages. Their consumer products and services would be more expensive."

"It is in our power to wipe out poverty. It simply isn’t among our priorities."