America’s ‘quiet catastrophe’: Millions of idle men

Re:America’s ‘quiet catastrophe’: Millions of idle men by jlarocco on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:02PM (#12649308)

If a person is choosing not to work, why would they change their mind to work on public works projects that tend to be manual labor?

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Re:America’s ‘quiet catastrophe’: Millions of idle men by vkou on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:57PM (#12649633)

When there are 90 jobs, and 100 people looking for work, are then ten who end up unemployed choosing to not work?

I suppose they could offer to work more hours, and accept lower wages. Would that mean that the 10 people that they replace are now choosing not to work?

The structurally unemployed don't choose to be idle - or more specifically, some amount of the population will always be idle, regardless of whether or not it does so by choice, or not.

The only countries that have full employment are war economies, and communist states.

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Re:America’s ‘quiet catastrophe’: Millions of idle men by jlarocco on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @10:05PM (#12649667)

RTFA. It is specifically talking about people who are choosing not to work.

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Re:America’s ‘quiet catastrophe’: Millions of idle men by vkou on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @10:12PM (#12649690)

So what? Every person has a price point at which they will choose not to work. Especially when there isn't work for them.

There isn't a labour shortage. In fact, there is quite the opposite.

Or, more specifically, there is a labour shortage, but in fields that our economy does not seem to care to pay for.

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