Does everyone really need a job? Why we should question full employment

Does everyone really need a job? Why we should question full employment

Lots of work needs to be done, but do we all need to work 40 hour weeks? (Photo by Mike Kononov and Solomon Hsu on Unsplash)

The idea that diligence is a virtue and that a person who doesn’t work full time is morally suspect is a common one. Phrases like “idle hands are the tools of the devil” suggest to us that work is inherently good and that if we don’t work full-time then we have somehow failed. For many people, unemployment is as much something to be ashamed of as it is an economic problem. It is no […]

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