Craig I actually agree that their won't be a permanent high rate of unemployment. However, the number of full time jobs with benefits has been declining and continues to decline. Young adults entering the job market today do not have the same opportunities for full time employment as their parents did. The economic opportunities as well as the social and individual costs of the new labour-market norm of flex-jobs is discussed in Guy Standing's book "The Precariat; The New Dangerous Class".
BTW, Guy Standing helped to set up and monitor the Indian experiment in basic income. In this recent news article he describes the results of the experiment. Cash transfers can work better than subsidies http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article6665676.ece Harry On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Craig Haynie <[email protected]> wrote: > You have a prediction that there will be a high rate of unemployment, but > these sorts of predictions started in the late 1800s with the expansion of > industry. Now you're proposing a solution for this prediction, and believe > that any opposition to this solution "does not make sense." But you > wouldn't try to solve any other problem in this way. You wouldn't take a > prediction based on loose science, and try to solve a problem which does > not yet exist. Moreover, your solution requires taking money from people > without their consent. So there is no way that someone opposed to your > prediction, and your solution, could opt-out. I sympathize with your desire > to try to solve an unrealized problem, but ask that you do not include > those who disagree with your assessment of the problem, and your proposed > solution. > > Craig > > > On 12/09/2014 06:06 PM, a.ashfield wrote: > >> I have been writing about the coming high rate of permanent unemployment >> that I expect. An unconditional income to everyone is one the few ideas >> that shows promise. I was surprised to see that a large experiment has >> actually been carried out in India and the results are fascinating. >> Whether that will apply to a more developed country remains to be seen. >> Switzerland voted it down quite recently. I expect the major difficulty >> here to try it would be the GOP, but logically that does not make sense. >> >> Thanks for linking the video. >> >> Adrian Ashfield >> > >
