Their numbers are growing with each passing day.
More to the point, we'll never be able to approach full employment unless (a) government takes up the slack with a jobs program, or (b) people start spending more money on stuff so that the job creators who sell the stuff can hire more workers to make more stuff. Unfortunately, too many people can't afford to spend much money for stuff because their savings and nest eggs were looted during the recession, and since the government refuses to repatriate the money from the guilty parties, here we are in a state of permanent malaise with a looming poverty crisis on our hands. This is what a guaranteed annual income is designed to prevent, and the sooner policymakers start thinking about it, the better off the Republic will be. But whatever they decide, the ultimate fix is to get more money into more people's hands. Annual government stimulus checks or government-augmented incomes aren't the only ways to achieve this---they're just among the simplest and the most cost-effective because there's no private-sector middle man, e.g., shareholders, to siphon off wealth.
---Baron V
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