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What if the way we go about hiring workers is inherently discriminatory because it places workers in the position of having to "earn" a job instead of forcing businesses to prove that they deserve to have people work for them?
@starbreaker Unless you change who pays who for work, that doesn't make any sense. Since businesses pay for a worker's labor, they set the requirements for who may work.
@DragonIV Businesses get to discriminate because the threat of poverty keeps the labor pool large enough to create a buyer's market for labor in most industries.
If we changed that by implementing a universal basic income that made full-time work optional, the labor market would become a seller's market.
@starbreaker Mostly, yes--a UBI would definitely be a change for the positive for workers. However, assuming that "working" pays more on top of UBI, or exceeds it enough to make it worthwhile, there is nothing to prevent companies from discriminatory hiring. The labor pool doesn't change much from their perspective.
Despite that, UBI has so many other benefits (including insurance against a downturn in labor needs) that it's a must have.
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@starbreaker Mostly, yes--a UBI would definitely be a change for the positive for workers. However, assuming that "working" pays more on top of UBI, or exceeds it enough to make it worthwhile, there is nothing to prevent companies from discriminatory hiring. The labor pool doesn't change much from their perspective.
Despite that, UBI has so many other benefits (including insurance against a downturn in labor needs) that it's a must have.