Benjamin Kline Hunnicut is professor of leisure studies at the University of Iowa, which sounds mildly ridiculous. Maybe that’s the problem, because we’ve become accustomed to thinking that everyone should be enjoying the fruits of full employment. In any case, it is odd that the Republicans are behaving as if we should all be working all the time when their main message seems to be that things have gone to hell ever since women got control of their reproductive systems, joined the workforce, and stopped being home for the kids when they get out of school. If some women (and men) are now able to get their health insurance on the exchanges instead of from dead-end jobs they don’t even want, then maybe we’ll have fewer latch-key kids.
Theoretically, there should be more work available for people who need it for the wages instead of just the health coverage. That would create a more rational allocation of labor and a happier workforce, would it not?
