If you said "jobs that provide a sense of self-worth", you win! Jobs provide $$$. Self-worth is for nimrod lottery-winners like Noah Smith.
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Counterpoint: http://deoxy.org/endwork.htm
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I think I disagree. A lot of people have uncool jobs that give them social networks,time out of the house, moderate activity,dignity
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And a lot of people have uncool jobs that tear them away from their families, break down their bodies, humiliate them.
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"Dignity" is generally horseshit, spackle for bad moralizing, but at best it's obtained from _earning_ money.
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The kind of jobs program technocrats propose isn't earning, it's welfare + conscription. Makework doesn't afford dignity.
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I think the central bank in most countries is undertaking a deliberate policy of encouraging work, and I think this is a good thing.
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do you mean assuming that work is necessary to dignity?
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Ding! More accurately, assuming there's a strong correlation either way. Many jobs are degrading and miserable.
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It's not slavery if you _mean well_.
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can we kill this pernicious idea that work will set you free? Seems to have taken root in America.
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It's not so much question-begging as bandaid proposals. The problem is over-collateralization of the economy (indebtedness) and...
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