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Then government should protect them, instead of preserving jobs that left them working nearly full-time and receiving transfer payments. Transfer payments going to full-time workers are simply subsidies to their employers.


For how long? I'm talking about people in their 30's who don't realize that there is never going to be a job for them again in the industry they were working in back in February 2020.

Mass UBI is not going to be the utopia people imagine it to be.


If we don't need their work because productivity is so high, then forever. If we do need their work, we should funnel them into the training they need to do it.


What right do they have to the sweat of my brow?

What's in it for me to sustain those who provide nothing of use?


"Let the chips fall where they may" is exactly how we got here. You can't just "retrain" millions of people to be software engineers.

Again with the utopianism.




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