If the USA ever really had a social “safety net” it was not welfare or unemployment insurance. No, the safety net was being able to pick shift work at the local manufacturing plant when times got tough or little Timmy needed braces.
And today we have Uber, Lyft, Upwork and tons of other gig-economy options.
People are capable of doing more than assembly line work.
“If the USA ever really had a social “safety net” it was not welfare or unemployment insurance. No, the safety net was being able to pick shift work at the local manufacturing plant when times got tough or little Timmy needed braces.”
Very interesting post.
That is the economic system; the culture, that made the US the powerhouse it once was. Everyone pulled their own weight - but there was the means to pull your own weight if/when you needed to.
Hard to explain, but putting it the way you did makes it easier to realize what a disaster so-called ‘transfer payments’ (welfare/UI) actually was.
In the beginning it might have been ‘okay’, but it is all so out of control now.