OK, I have a friend who might be among the dreaded 2.x million who will leave the workforce because of ObamaCare. He works at a hospital as an OR tech–a job he keeps mainly for the health benefits!–and he makes and sells hand-printed T-shirts. So if he were to leave the OR job, then he would be able to focus on the T-shirt business, which could easily result in the making and selling of so many T-shirts that he’s forced to start hiring people. Oh, and meanwhile there’s an opening at the hospital. According to Kathleen Parker, this would be a bad thing.
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Does Kathleen Parker not realize that this should be the point of expanded wealth and technology? After all, hunter gatherer societies were overwhelmingly more better off in terms of quality of life than, say, industrialized England in the 19th century. They had much more leisure time to do whatever. Why are we literally working ourselves to death, and making the point of life to…work?
After all, Keynes predicted that eventually we wouldn’t need so many workers and there would be a lot more leisure time. Instead, that’s not what’s happened because rich fucks keep taking all of the gains for themselves. More output, more efficiency, and for what? Stagnated wages, no pensions, no financial security.
We should be lowering the hours worked weekly; expanding government guaranteed vacations in countries that have them, and implementing them in the US; expanding paid parental leave for newborns, and again implementing it in the US. And of course, implementing a universal basic income which was supported by that “liberal” Richard Nixon.