Re:We shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty
by seanmcdirmid on Saturday February 19, 2022 @02:55PM
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Right. And businesses can always get creative by improving productivity (via automation) to survive with rising labor costs. Those that cannot simply cease to exist, entire industries die out all the time.
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Re:We shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty
by JumpCrisscross on Saturday February 19, 2022 @06:28PM
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> And businesses can always get creative by improving productivity (via automation) to survive with rising labor costs. Those that cannot simply cease to exist, entire industries die out all the time.
This takes commerce as a given. Another outcome is that those that cannot cease to exist and are replaced by nothing, leading to more poverty. That has been a common failure mode of that policy.