The high unemployment rate in the United States is a problem which cannot be easily solved. There are many factors involved, many which people do not want to accept, such as the fact that businesses are finding they can do with less labor to continue to make profits, and so they see no reason to have an excess number of workers whose labor will not improve the money being made. However, some people have tried to come up with solutions. One is Michele Bachmann. Her solution is simple: remove the minimum wage, so people can get jobs:
Literally, if we took away the minimum wage—if conceivably it was gone—we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level. (source)
Yes, that’s right. One should not expect to make money while working a job (see the increasing number of unpaid internships). If we remove the idea that a job leads to the making of money, then we can make sure everyone is employed. We can make the jobless rate 0. No one needs to be paid, just work. Unemployment will be a thing of the past! Everyone will be expected to work – for no money.
People are made for jobs, instead of jobs being made for people.
Isn’t that also known as slavery? Belloc and Chesterton were right when they showed how capitalism leads to the servile state. The whole point of work is misconstrued so that one can ignore the dignity of the worker and the value of their labor.
Now, it is interesting to see the same people who talk about how bad government is because it reduces your liberty to be the same people promoting the servile state. It demonstrates the underlying deception involved (be it self-deception or outright dishonest, I do not know). Now, before you say we must reject the servile state, just remember, if remove payment from jobs, people won’t have money for abortions. That’s right, when people are not being paid, they won’t be able to afford abortions.
Does this mean we must end up supporting the servile state if one doesn’t want to be shown as supporting abortion?
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