Re:The threat of technological unemployment
by zip1234 on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:10PM
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2 and 3 for sure. Anything that makes it so small businesses can more easily and cheaply hire people will have a big impact. Employment taxes, workers comp, etc may seem like they are helpful, but because they raise the cost of hiring employees, they discourage businesses of a certain size from hiring
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Re:The threat of technological unemployment
by toomuchtodo on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:43PM
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> Employment taxes, workers comp, etc may seem like they are helpful, but because they raise the cost of hiring employees, they discourage businesses of a certain size from hiring
The outlawing of slavery made cotton more expensive. We still have cheap t-shirts.
There is no excuse for rolling back labor protections when there is so much wealth available to society; its the distribution that's the problem.