(1/10) Me on the differences between leftist and rightist philosophies around unemployment benefits, a thread:

(2/10) The left of politics generally sees work as something people enjoy doing. So, given the opportunity, people will work. The problem being, things get in the way of people being able to work; namely access, safety, discrimination, health, and alienation between worker and

(3/10) product/service. The political work is done in trying to minimise these barriers to employment, i.e., legislating for equality. Because leftist politics believes people want to work, an increase in unemployment benefits aids in the minimisation of the barriers to finding

4/10 employment, and therefore not a negative thing.

(5/10) Conversely, the right of politics believe people would prefer to passively receive wealth, rather than having to work for it. Thinking that people don’t want to work means that people need to be coaxed and cajoled into working. This is the basis of the right’s disdain for

(6/10) unemployed people. The right doesn’t increase unemployment benefit because they feel doing so would reduce the incentive for unemployed people to get a job. In other words, they need to use starvation, homelessness, and poverty as incentives to get people to take jobs.

(7/10) If leftist thinking is true, then an increase in unemployment benefits would lead to a decrease in unemployment, as more unemployed people are able to find work, due to improved circumstances now under their control (health and access). I should note, all the barriers to

(8/10) employment can be reduced through workplace legislation, which also helps to reduce unemployment.

9/10 It is this that truly scares the right, as such legislation would redistribute the profits towards more lower income workers. If the right’s thinking is true, then it is only the right’s fault that people don’t want to work. The reason they think people don’t want to work is

(10/10) because they believe the jobs that they advertise are simply not of a minimal quality that people would willingly work if not under duress.