Re:Percentage of Young Americans Living with Parents Rises t...
by jackcosgrove on Thursday December 22, 2016 @12:36PM
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I am listening to this book now called "The Dictator's Handbook". One of the arguments is that as more people become economically productive, the level of autocracy in a society decreases because it is in governments' interest to liberate productive people to generate wealth. So a society in which many people are unproductive is also a society more liable to become a dictatorship.
SSI and SNAP have really high velocity. For one thing, velocity is a good thing on its own. For another, they're both composed of everybody's favorite convenient social fiction - money. The both run around 5% of GDP. So say that doubles.
People not working is only actually a problem if the overall economy experiences something akin to opportunity loss from them not doing anything. The map is not the territory and the books are not the company.