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December 14, 2013
"Trouble is, there isn’t enough work to go around—not real work that does something that actually needs doing."
When you can’t produce even semi-jobs, pretend jobs, or forthrightly silly jobs, you get open unemployment.Since the United States thinks it unbecoming to let droves of people starve to death, the country has turned to massive charity. The most intractable example is the urban underclass. Here we have millions of people for whom there is no work, who couldn’t do it if there were, and who will remain as they are until the planets grow weary and stop in space. Rust on the Iron Law of Wages -Fred Reed
Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 14, 2013 8:15 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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"Here we have millions of people for whom there is no work, who couldn’t do it if there were, and who will remain as they are until the planets grow weary and stop in space".
Or until the money runs out and the EBT cards don't fund. Then they'll come looking for your food and mine. They won't starve until they have eaten everything they can steal.
Posted by: glenn at December 14, 2013 9:40 AM
Mineral injections at or above the speed of sound will permanently ease their hunger.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at December 14, 2013 4:17 PM
Trouble is, there isn’t enough work to go around—not real work that does something that actually needs doing.
Demonstrably false. Are their slums and poor housing? Are the streets and beaches strewn with garbage? Are there untended fences and pothole’d roads? Does your room need cleaned?
Posted by: ErisGuy at December 15, 2013 3:46 AM
@glenn:
They won't starve because when they get within range small pieces of high speed lead will be forced through their brains.
Posted by: ghostsniper at December 15, 2013 4:54 AM