Tell this to a single parent working multiple jobs. When are they supposed to be brushing up on their web development skills?
>If you want freedom from "finding work", create your own value by starting a business
Not everyone can afford the startup costs and risks of starting a business.
>it's not the system that is broken — it's the people
Do you believe wealth is perfectly correlated with behavior that improves society?
I believe that history provides countless examples of the merits of capitalism and it's helped us achieve things that were previously unimaginable, but I don't think that's enough to say we can't do better for more people.
(I don't mean that the government charges 50% taxes on workers. I mean that, in France, government consumes 50%+ of GDP - or so I understand.)
Here we see another iteration of power grab - and another iteration of defense. Government isn't only the burden, it also serves some purposes.
And if it is, then you don't get to complain that work doesn't pay very well. You're taking the rest of your compensation in the form of government.
> “If we don’t invent a new capitalism, absurd economic solutions will win over and sweep us straight into recession,’’ Le Maire said in an interview late last month.
> A key example for him is Italy, where the populist government came to power riding a wave of public anger. It quickly threw out the rulebook on fiscal responsibility, sent bond yields higher and confidence lower, helping to push its economy into a slump.
An example of a failed fiscal policy is a government who gave up on fiscal responsibility. No shit Sherlock.
> “If we want capitalism to hold together work must be better paid,” Le Maire said. “There comes a moment when workers won’t tolerate it any longer.”
If you want better paying work: find a better paying job. If you can't get employed in one, develop/learn marketable skills to do so. If you want freedom from "finding work", create your own value by starting a business.
The system is fine. Sure, the system can have added "benefits", but it's not the system that is broken — it's the people.