Re:Hiring for Basic Income
by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:12PM
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> The article discuss the fact that most of those who are consuming disability benefits are not, in fact, physically unable to work.
That's a non-sequitur, as the distribution between group (1) and group (2) in the GP post is immaterial to the argument made there.
If you want to address the points actually made in the post you are responding to instead of throwing out irrelevancies, feel free to do so.
This is readily apparent from the fact that disability claims are strongly correlated with the economy; recessions do not cause people to become paraplegics. And this rise is in spite of workplaces and daily life becoming safer.
NPR also has an expose on rampant disability fraud, although they of course use more polite language: http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/