[lbo-talk] Clinton's modest proposal

[brad bauerly]

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> And keeping all those men and women off the labor market is not minor.
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> Carrol
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> I have heard this thrown around on the left a lot, but I never quite
understood why it would be a benefit to have workers out of the labour
market.  I understand the need for social control and setting up
disciplinary boundaries... However, reduced labour market participation
seems to work cross-purposes with the self discipline of the labour market
itself. Not that it doesn't happen.

Brad