One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid

Re:One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps ... by OgsyedIE on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @02:59PM (#40444772)

Supposing that fulfillment industry in general went without these labor subsidies - the industry would pass the costs on in some proportion p and 1-p to dividends and customer prices, resulting in lower investment and smaller sales volumes.

Sounds alright, but then you have noticeably less unskilled and semi-skilled labor demand (possibly as much as 1-4%) in an environment where:

* the long struggle of delegitimising explicit political violence is waning,

* nobody outside of the Club of Rome wants to so much as touch the application of the framing of subsidies and overbuild to the topic of population

* and the math for how UBI interacts with the primary sector is intractable.

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Re:One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps ... by astrange on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @03:02PM (#40444810)

> * and the math for how UBI interacts with the primary sector is intractable.

There have been lots of empirical studies of UBI and the evidence from them is pretty clear that… they don't actually affect employment much either way.

Which I don't think is an answer that advocates or opponents like, as seemingly everyone thinks it would cause people to retire and write a book or something.

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