Re: Bugs in free markets.

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 23:22:19 MDT


Phil Osborn wrote:

> And on that note, consider how the Unemployment Compensation or Workman's
> Comp systems actually work in practice. Unemployment compensation requires
> the worker to prove that he or she was fired or laid-off due to no fault of
> their own. The worker is forced to pay into the system, and then it
> requires him to put up with virtually anything on the job with no recourse.
> If he quits because the boss is a sadistic jerk who spends every day
> psychologically torturing him, he gets back none of the money he paid in.

Excuse me? Paid IN? The worker is paid OUT. He's paid out and paid
out and paid out (and, more to the point, paid off) every two weeks on
payday. How shameful that he isn't paid out even more when he quits!
What is this world coming to?

-Dan

      -unless you love someone-
    -nothing else makes any sense-
           e.e. cummings



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