Jim Hlavac
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Economic Theory
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The right to work being necessary for survival, employment is the
natural condition of mankind. There is, however, always some level of
unemployment as people switch jobs and go about the changes in their
lives.
The government causes unemployment by its restrictions on
businesses and the imposition of onerous taxes and regulations. The
government outlaws certain types of businesses. Those countries which
outlaw or restrict the least have the most employment.
The unemployment in societies that repress the expression of
human creativity will always be high, because there are simply less
things to be employed at.
Governments which guarantee employment are the worst off,
because no real economic activity is occurring. The government doesn't
make anything, and it must tax those who are productive to keep
paying the government employees. A state owned enterprise that hires
people merely to keep them employed is one of the worst examples of
this. Sure, it looks like there's no unemployment, but what employment
there is is nothing less than fake. It profits no one, though it may keep
people fed. But absent a government guarantee of employment, coupled
with no restrictions on private employment, all people would be
employed, because work is necessary for survival.
Counting the unemployed by who gets unemployment benefits
results in not counting those who are no long eligible to receive those
benefits. It doesn't necessarily mean that these people are now
employed.
Requiring people to be employed is an absurd theory -- people are
required to work by virtue of their own existence -- in order to survive
all people must work. What requiring employment usually means in
countries where it is a policy usually means that the people are
prohibited from working at what they would want to and are instead
forced into working for what the government wants them to. Which
isn't any different than slavery or serfdom.
natural condition of mankind. There is, however, always some level of
unemployment as people switch jobs and go about the changes in their
lives.
The government causes unemployment by its restrictions on
businesses and the imposition of onerous taxes and regulations. The
government outlaws certain types of businesses. Those countries which
outlaw or restrict the least have the most employment.
The unemployment in societies that repress the expression of
human creativity will always be high, because there are simply less
things to be employed at.
Governments which guarantee employment are the worst off,
because no real economic activity is occurring. The government doesn't
make anything, and it must tax those who are productive to keep
paying the government employees. A state owned enterprise that hires
people merely to keep them employed is one of the worst examples of
this. Sure, it looks like there's no unemployment, but what employment
there is is nothing less than fake. It profits no one, though it may keep
people fed. But absent a government guarantee of employment, coupled
with no restrictions on private employment, all people would be
employed, because work is necessary for survival.
Counting the unemployed by who gets unemployment benefits
results in not counting those who are no long eligible to receive those
benefits. It doesn't necessarily mean that these people are now
employed.
Requiring people to be employed is an absurd theory -- people are
required to work by virtue of their own existence -- in order to survive
all people must work. What requiring employment usually means in
countries where it is a policy usually means that the people are
prohibited from working at what they would want to and are instead
forced into working for what the government wants them to. Which
isn't any different than slavery or serfdom.