https://archive.ph/dZIsF

  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    I thought the ruling class wants higher unemployment, as a "worker discipline device."

    https://theintercept.com/2023/01/24/unemployment-inflation-janet-yellen/

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      It's one of the core contradictions. Keeping the rates high is a way to build out a reserve army of labour, but it's also destroying the consumer market which underpins the whole system.