A fan on Twitter linked me this article about the hardships of being unemployed and looking for a job. As someone who #knowsthosefeels, a lot of the points struck true for me. I’m not so much into Marxism or that part of the left but the personal stuff was really depressing but in a very…
I responded to Samuel Hammond a few weeks ago on his pro-work case for the universal basic income (UBI) but my analysis doesn’t stop there. Through Hammond’s article I found some articles by economist Noah Smith on the relationship between work/jobs and dignity. I didn’t have the space at the time to get into Smith’s…
A relatively uninteresting study came out earlier this year stating that people who are over 40 are going to benefit more if they work less than 40 hours. Their ideal time is more likely to be around 25 hours a week (see the actual study here) instead of 40 and any higher than that would…
It may be odd for some of y’all to hear (a few times now) that I have ties to libertarians. I used to be an anarcho-capitalist and I was in favor of a minimal government before that. I still have anarcho-capitalist friends as well as minarchist friends (though far fewer) and I still talk to…