Matt Debates Job Guarantee with Mark Paul
Added 2020-11-02 17:54:34 +0000 UTCThis is the audio from a debate hosted by Philly DSA about the JG. Matt argues against the JG. Mark Paul argues for.
There is a video of the recorded zoom call here, though I thought some might prefer to have it in audio podcast form as well. Apologies for audio quality which obviously is not as good as usual due to the format.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiI8Ai4RsL4&feature=emb_title
Comments
A lot of the intuitive appeal to folks on the left of a job guarantee is that it could be a way to democratically identify socially valuable work that the market doesn't produce, and then put people in these jobs. Matt pretty convincingly argues that actual job guarantees are likely to look a whole lot like workfare, and he's pretty convincing in arguing that better unemployment benefits along w/ a full social safety net pretty much solves the 'unemployment' problem, but I'd like to see him more thoroughly address the 'markets fail to create certain necessary jobs' problem (which admittedly his opponent didn't really cover here either.)
Anders Scholl
2020-12-08 23:12:10 +0000 UTC
