Shocking Study Finds Paying People Not To Work Makes People Not Want To Work

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[–]binrobinro 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Makes your skin darker, too.

[–]Sendnoodles 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Meanwhile in reality, most welfare recipients are already employed, just underpaid, and of those that aren't employed, most go on to find jobs and exit welfare programs. I understand that this is supposed to be satire but it's still completely uninformed ignorance.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-REB-31861

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304387818305571

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150331074345.htm

[–]Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Businesses all over the US are desperate to find workers, but no one wants to work. Pretty much every sign in my area says workers needed, offering higher wages than I've ever seen for the industry, some even paying sign on bonuses or even paying for interviews. I've talked to people who don't want to go back to work, because they're making more from unemployment than they did working and would lose those benefits if they went back to work. It seems pretty obvious that if you pay people more not to work, many people aren't going to want to work!

https://mises.org/power-market/thanks-covid-stimulus-employers-cant-find-workers-montanas-governor-having-none-it

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/mcdonalds-drive-thru-customer-savage-sign-no-one-wants-to-work

[–]Sendnoodles 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

they're making more from unemployment than they did working and would lose those benefits if they went back to work

That's a sign of a broken system, not people taking advantage of the system. If working full time at a job at minimum wage isn't even enough to pay rent, which it isn't in any state, that's a systematic problem.A problem created by republicans fighting the minimum wage being raised. Also welfare used to include things like job training which would solve the problem of these jobs not being able to find qualified workers, but again republicans fight that. It's a republican created problem and republicans are also fighting the solutions.

......But either way, the result is not people not trying to work. I already showed you that WITH SOURCES. You're just making an unsubstantiated emotional appeal and giving anecdotal evidence which are both logical fallacies and do counter the sources I provided.

[–]Sendnoodles 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-shortage-jobs-report-low-wages-biden-covid