Implode-o-Meter News - Weekend Reading: Move Over UBI - The "Guaranteed Job" Solves A Lot More Problems

With full employment, the capitalists lose their leverage to depress workers' wages and must give up more profits. But, more than that, when it comes to running endeavors that are ostensibly "theirs," the capitalists are forced to bargain with and bend to the will of workers "below" them. Their position as the demigods of the economy--granting employment when they are appeased, and taking it away when they are angered--is undone.
Capitalists do not want recessions, of course, since their income and wealth holdings suffer as well. But they don't want the economy running at full steam, either. Their solution, as John Maynard Keynes put it, has been "abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-slump." Perhaps this sounds familiar.
In defiance of this economic regime, the job guarantee asserts that, if individuals bear a moral duty to work, then society and employers bear a reciprocal moral duty to provide good, dignified work for all. It would finally make real the ideal, stated in Franklin Roosevelt's "Economic Bill of Rights," that every American possesses a "right to a useful and remunerative job" and "to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation." Not a paternalistic aid, and not some tribute to aristocratic virtue, but a right to be claimed and exercised. ''
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Intriguing is the direct tie-in to ending the central banking-dysfunction, which is in place in large part supposedly to ameliorate recessions and the destruction of jobs:

From then on, every private sector recession would swell the ranks of job-guarantee recipients again, but never by that much. Right now, recessions feed on themselves: People lose jobs, their consumption drops, so more people lose jobs, until the recession bottoms out. But employment through the job guarantee is limited only by human imagination and ingenuity. A recession is just a collapse in the private sector's ability to employ everyone according to the capitalists' priorities. So recessions would simply throw workers onto the job guarantee's alternate employment, with its attendant wage floor. The bottom for recessions would be much shallower, and recoveries much faster, shrinking the job guarantee rolls again. We would be spared the human and social wreckage that comes with spells of mass unemployment. Preventing mass joblessness would prove far cheaper than eliminating it once it's set in.
An even more intriguing possibility is that the job guarantee would eliminate the need for the Fed to adjust interest rates... with a job guarantee, the downturn would simply move workers onto the set wage and compensation rate, which doesn't engage in a bidding war. This would end the arms race as well, but without casting people into joblessness and all its attendant human destruction. So the job guarantee could stabilize the ups and downs of inflation as well.

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Weekend Reading: Move Over UBI - The "Guaranteed Job" Solves A Lot More Problems