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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2021-05-06

"So the thing that these right-wing cosplay economists like Burger King Is Full Communism Lady keep missing about the 'employment crisis' is that the reason businesses are foundering isn't that they can't compete with an imaginary UBI, it's that they don't want to compete, period." -- Alexandra Erin ([twitter.com profile] AlexandraErin), 2021-05-03 [This tweet sounds like enough, but there's more in the thread, about manager-contempt, who lets employees sit down, etc.]

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posted by [personal profile] dewline at 02:07pm on 2021-05-06
That kind of contempt is worth pushing back against.
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posted by [personal profile] extraarcha at 03:35pm on 2021-05-06
see my comment?
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posted by [personal profile] extraarcha at 03:34pm on 2021-05-06
Speaks to this:

May 4, 2021
U.S. labor shortage? Unlikely. Here’s why
  ~ Heidi Shierholz / Working Economics Blog


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