[staytrue]

I occassionally employ low skill workers.

But when I do, I have to be there or else, they wont work, and they will steal.

So alot of the time, I say to hell with it and do the job myself.

[Vigilanteman]

True story. I worked for a Japanese multinational in a previous life which included construction sites in Indonesia.

There was always petty pilferage from the construction sites as work was in progress. It became so annoying that we hired guards at a little more then the going rate of $4 per day. The pilferage actually increases so we dismissed the guards and the pilferage returned to normal levels. Go figure.

[Valpal1]

Which is why the “low skilled” need to be self employed. But as long as the barriers to self employment from government (regulatory schemes as well as taxes on working and saving) remain, most will remain unmotivated to being productive.

We really are headed toward a dystopian future of feral rabble walled off from the educated elite served by robots. The middle class will disappear.