Re:Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19
by calvinbhai on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:34PM
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Need to go off on a tangent to reply.
Canada is showering it's unemployed citizens with something similar to $2000 per month unemployment benefits.
That's $12.5 per hr for not working, while (minimum wage in Ontario) is $14 per hr.
Why would anyone work to get $1.5 per hr extra? When you can stay home and get the free money? (in fact other provinces, $12.5 per hr is above minimum wage).
Having something like this for a month or two was probably fine, but right now Canada is paying it's residents to not work while grocery stores / warehouses are not finding enough workers.
I was tilting positive of UBI until I saw the effects of this $2K per month scheme in Canada.
To immediately solve the problem, Canada can continue giving $2K per month to those who are unemployed, but working in a necessary occupation (say grocery stores, deliveries, warehouses) wouldn't disqualify them from getting the $2K, with a caveat that there's no minimum wage. At that point it's a two sided bidding with grocery stores going lower and workers increasing their bids. At some rate (say $5 per hr or $10 per hr) there's a right balance for supply/demand of labor.
Canada is showering it's unemployed citizens with something similar to $2000 per month unemployment benefits.
That's $12.5 per hr for not working, while (minimum wage in Ontario) is $14 per hr.
Why would anyone work to get $1.5 per hr extra? When you can stay home and get the free money? (in fact other provinces, $12.5 per hr is above minimum wage).
Having something like this for a month or two was probably fine, but right now Canada is paying it's residents to not work while grocery stores / warehouses are not finding enough workers.
I was tilting positive of UBI until I saw the effects of this $2K per month scheme in Canada.
To immediately solve the problem, Canada can continue giving $2K per month to those who are unemployed, but working in a necessary occupation (say grocery stores, deliveries, warehouses) wouldn't disqualify them from getting the $2K, with a caveat that there's no minimum wage. At that point it's a two sided bidding with grocery stores going lower and workers increasing their bids. At some rate (say $5 per hr or $10 per hr) there's a right balance for supply/demand of labor.