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    10 months ago

    @fsxylo not really. Neoliberal economics specifies that it demands an “ideal” unemployment rate of at least 5% at any given time for “elasticity”. Full employment would mean there isn’t a supply of desperate people ready to sign up for exploitative conditions.

    As such the unemployed absolutely are not living outside the system, they are the system working as intended.

    Picking on the homeless basically functions to keep all the unemployed, underemployed and the precariat, under control through fear of being in the same position.