https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2017/03/30/disabled-...
The only solution is for the able to pay others to not work, through welfare. The improvements in technology should more than make up for this loss.
The owners of the tech is highly likely to prefer to capture fully the output (by lowering taxes for example).
I think there should be a way to align incentives - education paid for by owners of the tech, but also a contractual obligation to work for X years for their sponsors.
If the point is that those people produce no value, they shouldn't work at all. They could just dig and fill ditches, but that doesn't produce value. Amazon also leeches from the public goods, but that is somehow socially acceptable.
The NYC school system has the "rubber room", where unflushable employees are warehoused.
One of the reasons I support UBI is because it's cheaper than welfare for keeping certain people out of the way.
> Humans are rational creatures
I think this claim needs to be backed up too. There is a lot of evidence indicating that we're incredibly irrational.
While I somewhat agree with your sentiment, and I'm not a big fan of the fact that these obese people are weighing down (no pun intended) our health care system, there really isn't a good solution that I can think of that doesn't limit these fat people's ability to make decisions about what they eat and how physically active they are day to day. I'd rather have a bunch of fatties making terrible health decisions and causing more stress on our healthcare system than having some Government representative telling people what they can or cannot do in the name of protecting them and keeping them healthy...
While I disagree with you, I disagree with the amount of down-voting you're receiving even more.
It's unfortunate that reasonably stated views that disagree with the basic frequency of the given echo chamber are so discouraged.
If these are not enough?
Many of the BBC who do you think you are series have terrible stories of peoples ancestors in workhouses.
Um, welfare, disability, social security, medicare, ... and all of the other "health and human services" related governmental programs are literally our entire country coming together as a community, to "provide for them".
God, you're so close. /r/selfawarewolves is calling you.
Why should they? Demand elasticity is empirically very low for minimum wage workers. Lowering minimum wage a small amount does not create jobs, just as raising it a small amount does not eliminate them.
See: the inverted funnel plot of Doucouliagos and Stanley
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/02/18/business/economy/...
https://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/lweab/Doucougliagos%20&%20Stan...
But, I think there is a third part of the cycle that the article you linked mentions. Nobody grows up wanting to survive off disability and being an opiate addict - while the pain clinic/disability combo might enable people entering this state, the reason people give in to this is that they have poor life prospects. Going on disability is basically giving up. We need to figure out how to provide better job and educational prospects in the areas / for the kind of people who are incentivized to go on disability so that they actually have much better options. The average West Virginian isn't intrinsically less able than the average resident of Utah