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I wish we were talking more about how to support the jobless long term rather than focusing on the numbers as a signal of the apocalypse (yes, I'm being hyperbolic). Seems like an inevitability we'll have to deal with one way or another.

I'm a bit of a bumpkin so I'm not familiar with various labor theory and whatnot... but in the long run we should maybe have more people working, but working less overall.

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A world where most people don't do productive labor is going to require multiple radical changes. We'll have to handle that eventually, but right this second we just don't have the social bandwidth to enact any more radical changes.

Is it radical for the richest country in the world to make sure people who are out of work don't get evicted when the extended pandemic benefits end this month?

It seems with the current political climate nothing radical can really happen at all, but there are pragmatic steps that can be taken to help ensure we can keep people fed and in their homes.

> America isn't the richest country in the world. It's a poor country with a lot of rich people.

if by "social bandwidth" you mean "convince people in power that they need to do something," I don't see America having much social bandwidth for anything any time soon.

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