For example, we discussed unemployment and agreed that instead of thinking of it as the absence of useful things to do, we should describe it as a state-imposed prohibition on people doing work society plainly needs because wages have been pushed too high for the worker to do the task.
Is he suggesting that the minimum wage should be abolished?
I might have edited his maundering.
I’m sorry to hear that, because I was about to commend it as a highly succinct analysis of the South African labor market.
Standard disclaimer that the real minimum wage is zero. If you can’t add value greater than the government-mandated pay rate, you’re not getting a job.
What on earth does that word salad mean?
I’ve got useful things to do, but don’t have time to do them because my time is eaten up trying to earn a living so I can stay alive so that I can do those useful things.
The commie dick megalomaniac is saying he will kill you and take your stuff.
‘A state-imposed prohibition on people doing work society plainly needs because the cost of employing someone has been pushed too high by the state’.
TFTFY.
ORRR, the state gives some people money to do nothing because the state wants to import cheaper people because it despises the people who come from here?
Looking back it’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment at which Britain stopped being Great.
1914
Oh God, here we go again. It’s still “Great” because the “Great” refers to geography not power. Else it couldn’t have been used in the middle ages, could it?
Then it should be “Greater” Britain.
Actually “Big Brittany”
I knew a girl . . . .
I’d say still great through the Falklands War and Thatcher, til around 1987.
Apropos the economy, some skeleton talking head on my TV who claims to be the chancellor is explaing how the government will direct work and investment by private secter firms in the national interest. My question is what is the word for that?
Also his speech is so similar to the bollocks the previous PM used to drone out that I wonder if they are using the same speechwriter. Or do they all think this stuff is NOT bollocks, which would be disturbing.
Rhoda
I’d guess they all believe this stuff is NOT bollocks.
Which is why its always about the creation of a permanent underclass that can be exploited for its labor.
We are being told that the productivity of labour is at last rising. But isn’t that just because the higher minimum wage has removed those workers with the lowest productivity?
instead of thinking of it as the absence of useful things to do, we should describe it as a state-imposed prohibition on people doing work society plainly needs because wages have been pushed too high for the worker to do the task.
Translation: we decided to do what progressives always do – make up shit and change the meanings of stuff till we get what we want.
I’ve thought about this deeply. And still have no idea what he’s blathering on about.