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Social insurance thrives when there is a roughly equal probability of upward and downward mobility, of making gains and making losses. In a society in which the precariat is growing, and in which social mobility is limited and declining, social insurance cannot flourish.
The Precariat
Guy Standing
The only thing that isn’t worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don’t.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Having a large proportion of the population who wish to work, but cannot, appears to be peculiar to what Marx liked to call “the capitalist mode of production.” But it appears to be, like public debt, a structural feature of the system which must nonetheless be treated as if it were a problem to be solved.
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
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