Thus I grew up in a family that loathes the unemployed. I really hope -- though I have grave doubts -- that this event gets through to them, so that they can have some personal growth, too.
Unemployed people, by definition, are net consumers. [2] Unless society as a whole actually produces wealth, there is nothing to tax, and the government doesn't have any money to spend. And how does wealth get created without people in employment? Unless you are the country with the reserve currency, which effectively gives you the ability to keep printing money until the world catches up to the con. Which doesn't still change the underlying economics, it is just that at any given point in time there is always some country which will be using the reserve currency status to make it appear like you can create wealth by printing more money.
Aiming for more employment is a net positive to any society, and I think that is what conditions people to loathe the permanently unemployed.
[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/40057352?seq=1
[2] I remember reading an essay by PG about how getting employment is when you go from being a "net consumer" to become a "net producer", cannot find the link.
Both were landlords.
Similarly, there are studies showing that rich people are less ethical. https://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086
> Unemployed people, by definition, are net consumers.
How do you define a "net consumer"? The only resource to consume on this planet is its ecosystem. Are unemployed people consuming more of our ecosystem than employed ones? I don't think so.
A lot of free software has been created by people not in employment. So the idea that unemployed people cannot be contributing value to society is false.
I was also raised in a family like this.
This event should show anyone with even a bit of sense that your 'virtue' is only a small part of your economic power.
(Any ideas to improve that?)