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1

The Soviet Union had "full employment" as do the Chinese Uyghurs. You can trust Communists like Mudede to solve any economic woe.

2

The question is not full employment - in fact, we have record job postings and record job growth.

The question is WHO is employed. The same is not true for women,or POC. They have higher unemployment, the former due to the lack of vaccines and daycare for 0-5 yo kids, the latter for discriminatory reasons (things that never mattered before, like the presumption that you need college to flip burgers or run retail operations).

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@1: As did England until the 70s and Japan until the 80s. What's your point?

4

Who gets to decide what is “socially meaningful” work and adequate pay? How will JG impact the quality of work? And why on earth would anyone characterize flipping burgers as “meaningless?” How cruel.

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@3 It was sarcasm. The only thing you can trust Communists to do is screw it all up.

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PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A SHOCK: Somebody didn't read the article and yet felt reflexively compelled to yell "COMMUNISM!"

7

Was there some update to the Oxford English Dictionary I am not aware of where Ill-Informed and knee-jerk are a synonyms for "sarcasm?"

8

I suspect we would still have a good number of unemployed people under such a system. There are a ton of jobs open now but somehow still plenty of panhandlers. It seems to be the case that a certain fraction of the population chooses not to work.

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@4, Go to a dinner or a bbq in the suburbs. People in those areas are very hung up on moving up in career growth, and consequently financial growth. Unless it was some high school kid, many of them would see flipping burgers as a lack of ambition.

10

What a fantastic vision. The strung out, eyes barely open, getting paid the same wages as their hard-working counterparts, to do "meaningful" work. Is the city going to open 3,000 positions for "official fentanyl tester"?
Cool story, Charles.

11

My guess is someone had a deadline and mailed it in after reading a deeply wonky article they didn't fully understand, hoping none of his readers would question his expertise, but the article got submitted to insure his guaranteed paycheck.

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My guess is someone had a deadline and mailed it in after reading a deeply wonky article they didn't fully understand, hoping none of his readers would question his expertise, but the article got submitted to insure his guaranteed paycheck.


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