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Re:Experiment in paying villagers in India an unconditional ... by dscrd on Sunday May 05, 2013 @06:55AM (#5658053)
>They probably said that also in the 19th century and look at us today, have we seen a drastic reduction of the active work population in 2 centuries? No.

But we have seen quite a massive increase of public sector. How many actually needed jobs do we have anymore?

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Re:Experiment in paying villagers in India an unconditional ... by kfk on Sunday May 05, 2013 @08:08AM (#5658153)
And yet again, why do we have to assume we have a bunch of people good for nothing? There is historically no evidence whatsoever that any percentage of any population provided absolutely nothing to society.

Now we are also saying public sector is not actually needed. I am not sure how to answer to such wild assumptions.

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