Lauren Ashcraft  🌹Compte certifié

How would the presence of make-work inefficient federal jobs solve this issue?

I’m guessing by the phrasing of your question this is not a good faith inquiry but a federal jobs guarantee is a safety net and a guaranteed alternative to whatever work situation you’re facing, which would force existing employers to have to *try*

I don't think that works. The jobs guarantee would only provide a real alternative to low-wage unskilled labor positions. Most of those have a known pay rate often keyed to the minimum wage. It's middle class jobs and up that require negotiation with specialized skills.

Unskilled is a term used by companies so they can steal from workers. It has literally no meaning.

The meaning is that the person you hire has no preexisting skills or specialization relating to your product or service. If I build a new factory and I need to employ someone to haul boxes, I will look to hire based on various factors, but not prior experience in hauling boxes.

Experience in hauling boxes in not going to be much of a skill. It means perhaps the difference between half a day of training and a full day. Now, if you had to go to school for 4 years to be an engineer and I need one, then I would have to limit my search to skilled engineers.

When “unskilled laborers” stop working, our economy collapses. Period. Workers of all skill levels are the backbone of this country, and trying to minimize their value is exactly why people are forced to work 2 full time jobs to feed their kids.

I don't see how I'm minimizing their value. I'm trying to describe the economic context. Indeed a federal jobs guarantee would minimize some of their value because it would cause inflation in consumer goods.