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Re:Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay by quotemstr on Monday January 13, 2020 @02:43PM (#22037836)
> just distilling people's lives and communities down to a dollar value

What's wrong with that? Our resources are finite. Our attention is short. We have to prioritize society's investment. How can anyone decide on the relative priority of two things without casting them to some common unit? It's only when we describe people's lives in terms of dollars that we can make intelligent decisions about where to apply society's scarce resources.

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Re:Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay by lenkite on Monday January 13, 2020 @02:52PM (#22037918)
This. All professions have relative economic value. The free market - a market without permanent subsidies, monopolies and correct application of import tax (to balance non-free foreign subsidies) is the best and most fair judge of this.

Not some social welfare activist or even some elected representative of the party in power.

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