• Arek@lemmy.world
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    I remember when I was younger, having low unemployment was considered a good thing, universally desired it seemed. Only in late stage capitalism is it a requirement that we have people who can’t find a job so the working class doesn’t get too uppity.

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      Reactionary take in response to billionaires being put in their place by a working class that is gaining back the union culture of the 20th century and pro-labour fervour of the 19th, assisted by the technology of the 21st.

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      More people are supposed to not have jobs, but at the same time, not be collecting unemployment or public assistance. So basically… go panhandle, live in a tent city, go to prison, or I guess just die is their suggestion.

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        If they died or went to prison then unemployment would go back down. The truth is they have no intelligent solutions and their economic beliefs are all make believe.

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          I thought of that but considered maybe they just want people to die, anyway. Agreed, I don’t get the impression this guy is super good at societal engineering or economics, other than as such might benefit people like him in the short term.

    • stilgar [he/him] @infosec.pub
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      This effect was analysed in great detail by Marx in the 19th century, so it’s not a characteristic of late stage capitalism, just of capitalism.

      His term “Reserve army of labour” refers to the unemployed.

      Taking them as a whole, the general movements of wages are exclusively regulated by the expansion and contraction of the industrial reserve army…

      From Capital by Marx

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour