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People who don’t want to work [1]
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Date: 2023-05-23
With Republicans pushing for work requirements in the debt ceiling negotiations, I thought it might be a good time to give you my unscientific research on this favorite Republican topic: Making people work who don’t want to work!
My research comes strictly from my own experience and that of my friends. But we ‘know’ that it applies universally. The results of that research will surprise and dismay most Republicans.
There are actually very few people who don’t want to work. There are a greater number who happen to be in the wrong job. Maybe they had to take the job because they needed something now, or maybe the bosses made a bad hiring decision…whatever. But in these situations it is incumbent on the boss to help that employee get into the right job. In those rare circumstances where you end up with someone who doesn’t want to work, you, as a boss, have two options. You can try to extract some work out of the individual or you can go through the hassle of firing them – I hope it’s a hassle in your organization; it should be a hassle, a Performance Improvement Plan, mountains of paperwork, endless meetings w/ HR, etc. If, indeed, you go the route of trying to extract work out of this rare person who doesn’t want to work, you will invariably find that the amount of work you put into making them work is a small fraction of the work you get out.
Republicans have created a fiction that there are hordes of people who don’t want to work. I think we all know why they have created that fiction. We needn’t waste time on it here. The fact is that the vast majority of people who are not currently working are in that situation because they are not able to work.
What we do need to recognize is that the implication of any work requirements that the Republicans are pushing would be a massive and costly administration to track/spy-on/harass people who want to work, but can’t. The small minority of people who don’t want to work cannot be made to work no matter how much effort you put into it.
The result of this Republican work requirement is that many people who desperately need Medicaid or food stamps will be forced to ‘live’ without them.
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