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Jobs are racist.
by ukoto 13y ago
Jobs are racist.
- npc 13y agoNo, just the people who decide who gets them: http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873 http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873
- bmmayer1 13y agoDidn't Steve Levitt prove this wrong?
- npc 13y agoI don't know, did he? Here's some more if that didn't convince you (courtesy of Tim Wise: http://www.timwise.org/2010/07/black-powers-gonna-git-you-sucka-right-wing-paranoia-and-the-rhetoric-of-modern-racism/ http://www.timwise.org/2010/07/black-powers-gonna-git-you-su...) http://www.princeton.edu/~pager/race_at_work.pdf http://www.princeton.edu/~pager/race_at_work.pdf http://www.eeo1.com/1999_NR/Title.pdf http://www.eeo1.com/1999_NR/Title.pdf http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/us/01race.html?_r=2 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/us/01race.html?_r=2
- coldtea 13y agoIf you are an economist (a field is already more an ideology / spin machine than science -- the science part in it is basically math), and you are more into entertainment (e.g making the NYT best selling list of shallow books) than science, then you can "prove" a lot of things, without actually proving anything. Start with a few unexamined wrong assumptions, select the data that fit your conclusion, dress them up with anecdotes and prose, and there you go!
- kansface 13y agoThis may be the case, but what should the job prospects for teenagers who just dropped out of high school be ideally?
- runawaybottle 13y agoA minimum wage job?
- jlgreco 13y agoAn unconditional basic income is probably a better way to go than a guaranteed minimum wage job. (Of course you could set the basic income at whatever a minimum wage job would provide.)
- kansface 13y agoOffering money to drop out of high school would cause the drop out rate to increase further. Besides, I get the feeling that most high school drop outs aren't really looking for work. This is a hard problem to solve.
- jlgreco 13y agoThe money would be unconditional, not in exchange for dropping out of high school. You may as well say that soup kitchens are offering soup to drop out of high school and are causing the drop out rate to increase further.
- kansface 13y agoAh, so anyone say 14 or older gets X/year? Any thoughts on what X would be. I assume this would supplant welfare to some degree?
- jlgreco 13y agoYes, though most proposals start at 18 I believe. It has some advantages over more traditional welfare systems. For instance it could be implemented with far less bureaucracy and would help improve labor mobility in the middle class by decreasing the friction of changing jobs and moving to different areas with better jobs (improving labor mobility would benefit the economy at large).