We just ran a huge unemployment experiment. Half the states reduced UI, it didn't increase employment compared to the states that kept UI. Then the UI expired and it didn't increase employment. Obviously UI isn't the issue but they REALLY want to force people to accept low wages.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1446661095083569153
These people want so badly to exploit others for their own benefit, that they don't seem to see that they're making things worse for themselves too. You can't cut incomes in a consumer economy and expect employment to rocket up. Consumer spending is what fuels our economy.
If we want to increase employment, we need to realize a pandemic still exists, and that's the main issue to tackle. We also need to make sure everyone has money to spend, and that they can afford things like child care to make employment make sense.
We should also automate more.
We should also automate more.
If a job isn't being filled at the wage being offered, either offer more until someone takes the job, or automate that job if that's an option. People aren't actually needed for a great deal of jobs and many jobs aren't being automated that could be because wages are too low.
Wages are too low because we lack a strong enough safety net. All of this comes back around to the problem being that government isn't doing enough, not that it's doing too much. What's needed is basic income. That would fuel the economy, raise wages, and put more robots to work.
Stop trying to force people to work. Stop using poverty as a weapon of fear + coercion.
Start providing everyone with the power to say no to conditions they're unwilling to accept and the freedom to say yes to the work and pay they're willing to accept.
Start UBI. Stop poverty.
Start providing everyone with the power to say no to conditions they're unwilling to accept and the freedom to say yes to the work and pay they're willing to accept.
Start UBI. Stop poverty.
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