54 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury OP 25 Jul 2023 \ parent \ on: Where are the people who used to work? tech
I know that's the standard story, and certainly a comforting one. But I don't believe it, certainly not in the current economy.
More plausible is that in some cases welfare, even though it sucks, sucks less, on net, than the lives they'd be able to live working full-time at Chipotle or whatever.