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Originally Posted by Axeman
One could argue it is the government's willingness to hand out these subsidies to employees as being the problem. Allows these people to never work harder to be great employees and increase their worth to their current or next employers who value their skills. Doesn't make them accountable to survive. Lets them get by doing the bare minimum, with the least responsibility.
I would argue the safety net has gotten too big, too vast, and too easy to make people complacent and lazy.
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I agree. There are some people who will do the bare minimum so long as they can continue to get their welfare and live their lives.
If there was no welfare or it was very difficult to get on I would bet that wages would increase one way or another. People would either demand higher wages because they can't otherwise survive on them or there would be more unionization and through it an increase in wages.
If people have no safety net then tend to demand more and work a little harder.