Opioids and the Labor Market (2018)

Re:Opioids and the Labor Market (2018) by chii on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:15PM (#19374060)

There's no incentive alignment between those who own the tech (the source of productivity increase), and those who would need the welfare (who would presumably be consuming some of said productivity increase).

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.

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Re:Opioids and the Labor Market (2018) by JetSpiegel on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @05:58AM (#19377200)

I think the incentive is basic empathy. Just because our fellow humans are economically worthless, does not mean they are lesser people.

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.

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Re:Opioids and the Labor Market (2018) by jjoonathan on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @11:58PM (#19375601)

Ah, yes, indentured servitude, a brilliant suggestion for uplifting a population out of poverty!

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