We need an economy, but the one we have right now has several mechanisms built in that only serve to penalise poor people when rich people don’t get what they want. Saying we need this economy is akin to saying slaves needed slave owners.
Yes high unemployment causes more deaths, but the solution to that isn’t low unemployment. The solution is fixing it so if stuff happens that causes unemployment to go up that people aren’t so fucked that they die.
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