Why Big Business Loves Desperate Workers

[ctsnowman]

And how a strong social safety net can make us all more free
by Stephen Pimpare

We don’t think enough about the economic functions of social welfare policy, or about the relationship between the safety net and labor markets, and this hinders our ability to make sense of why some people fight so hard against programs that aid poor and low-income people: We mistake them for anti-welfare ideologues, and dismiss them as cruel or ignorant, but there’s an economic logic to their activism, one that’s revealed if we look at the relationship between welfare and work from both the employee’s and the employer’s perspective. Let me explain.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/17-2


Basically he is saying the only way capitalism works is with lots of patches. I couldn't agree more.

[TBF]

1. For those who wish to save capitalism

this is the way to do it - more taxation (particularly corporate - those are the taxes that have been cut drastically since the 1950s) and provide a stronger safety net.