Right. And more evidence against Dave's thesis is that many places have unemployment programs where rather than take "free" money and sit on the couch, you can use that money to fund a start-up or participate in charitable work. It's not a disincentive to work. It's a safety net and productivity redistribution device.
On 2/5/21 9:23 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Unemployment benefits are only a disincentive to work if the work available > sucks. If one does harm to colleagues or employer, and they represent a > valuable relationship, then it is just a bad call. If it isn’t a valuable > relationship, then take the time and regroup to find a safe place to work. A > few hundred dollars a week is not a huge incentive or disincentive in the > context of damaging a professional reputation, but if the job has a good > chance of risking death, then it is different. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
