I just love how facts, and Trump, have utterly driven these people insane. There is simply no other explanation why otherwise intelligent people would, in a time of full employment and even labor shortages, would be militating for guarantees of “full employment.” If there was 12% unemployment, it’d be understandable (stupid as Hell given the record of socialist economic policies here and elsewhere for the past 100 years, but understandable); with 4.3% UE, it is downright insane.
Thank you, President Trump, for being the world’s greatest political Vulcan mind-meld. Contact with you reveals EVERYTHING about a person’s politics, but particularly among those who don’t like you.
Full employment in the economic reporting sense which excludes people who have given up on the job market. Long term we are going to see more and more of the population excluded from the labor market as automation and outsourcing destroy low-skilled jobs. People 40+ aren’t going to have luck with our “retraining programs” and lots of people are going to lack the cognitive firepower to obtain economically useful skills and find employment.
If in 10-20 years its a choice between this and UBI, this is better than creating a class of bored unproductive subsidized people.