mdwh2 wrote:
There are benefits to people without "the gold" too. I like being able to choose who to work for, rather than having some central authority choose what I do.
Socialism!=Soviet
Employed people are a liability. The fewer people working for a company, the less people that need to be paid.
Saying that employed people are a liability isn't a view shared by many of the corporations that you appear to dislike. Employees make up a company, and are arguably its most important part. Of course, you are right in that there is a tendency towards getting the job done with as few people as possible, but how is this a bad thing? Should we employ people doing unnecessary work just so they can have a "job"?
We already do it´s called bureaucracy, politics and financial sector:-)
The unlucky ones just get unempolyment benefits.