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Re:Hong Kong protests: Authorities to announce face mask ban by andrekandre on Friday October 04, 2019 @05:11PM (#21161954)
doesn’t a federal jobs guarantee just mean that if you can’t find a job, there’s at least somewhere you can go to get one, regardless of the state of the economy?

this is just my interpretation but, i’m not sure that would kill capitalism as much as mean that employees wouldn’t be scared as much from being fired, would be less afraid to be entrepreneurial (worst case in failure, you have a job until you can try again or find a better job in the private sector) etc...

same goes for medicare for all and tuition free college... i don’t see the authoritarian part (as your previous post alludes to) but maybe i’m missing something.

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Re:Hong Kong protests: Authorities to announce face mask ban by malandrew on Friday October 04, 2019 @06:53PM (#21162560)
The only way I'd be okay with a federal jobs guarantee is if it were a job that truly sucked so much that no one would want to do it and that they'd work hard to qualify for literally any other job but the federally guaranteed one. We'd also have to get rid of welfare. Sucking on the teat of the state should never be an attractive proposition.

Society only functions well if everyone makes a reasonable effort to be useful to one another.

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