Comments on On crutches and crowbars: toward a labor radical case against the minimum wageofficial state media for a secessionist republic of one2024-01-20T23:00:14Zhttps://radgeek.com/gt/2008/03/06/on_crutches/feed/WordPressBy: Where Democratic Despots Rule - Abolish WorkWhere Democratic Despots Rule - Abolish Workhttp://abolishwork.com/2017/07/14/democratic-despots-rule/tag:radgeek.com,2008://geekery_today.20080306123829#comment-6997292017-07-15T00:07:12Z2017-07-15T00:07:12Z[…] could keep going and I could talk about the way the welfare system traps the poor, how the state enforces zoning regulations and laws that make it harder to compete with big […]
]]>By: A Response to the Basic Income FAQ - In Five Parts (3/5) - Abolish WorkA Response to the Basic Income FAQ - In Five Parts (3/5) - Abolish Workhttp://abolishwork.com/2017/03/17/response-basic-income-faq-five-parts-35/tag:radgeek.com,2008://geekery_today.20080306123829#comment-5969072017-03-21T20:38:53Z2017-03-21T20:38:53Z[…] the present welfare system in that it’s paternalistic, bureaucratic, a net-loss for the poor, a trap, etc. etc. So our disagreement here isn’t necessarily about the UBI being better or worse […]
]]>By: The Death of Work Needs to be Celebrated - Abolish WorkThe Death of Work Needs to be Celebrated - Abolish Workhttp://abolishwork.com/2016/12/20/death-work-needs-celebrated/tag:radgeek.com,2008://geekery_today.20080306123829#comment-5616352016-12-21T04:19:17Z2016-12-21T04:19:17Z[…] agree that supporting yourself is important and that, ideally, we shouldn’t rely on government handouts. But the reality of the situation is that most people can’t live that sort of lifestyle, the […]
]]>By: An Anti-Work Feminism Doesn't Require a UBI - Abolish WorkAn Anti-Work Feminism Doesn't Require a UBI - Abolish Workhttp://abolishwork.com/2016/09/28/anti-work-feminism-doesnt-require-ubi/tag:radgeek.com,2008://geekery_today.20080306123829#comment-5202462016-09-28T18:00:06Z2016-09-28T18:00:06Z[…] system isn’t so much strong in the sense of being helpful but strong in the sense of being a gigantic trap for the poor. It’s a system (at least in the US) whereby the unemployed, disabled or otherwise worse-off […]
]]>By: Work is No Cure for Work Either - Abolish WorkWork is No Cure for Work Either - Abolish Workhttp://abolishwork.com/2016/02/29/work-is-no-cure-for-work-either/tag:radgeek.com,2008://geekery_today.20080306123829#comment-4764892016-03-01T03:03:18Z2016-03-01T03:03:18Z[…] in favor of removing debt, minimum wages and micro-managing but those aren’t the root issues at play […]
]]>By: "... gratitude born of desperation..." - Abolish Work"... gratitude born of desperation..." - Abolish Workhttp://abolishwork.com/2015/11/03/gratitude-born-of-desperation/tag:radgeek.com,2008://geekery_today.20080306123829#comment-4427602015-11-03T22:19:30Z2015-11-03T22:19:30Z[…] I’m not trying to argue against workers getting more in their wages as much as I’m skeptical of raises in minimum wages as a way to advance the cause of workers. With regards to workers not getting the full product of […]
]]>By: Rad Geek People's Daily 2014-01-28 – Welcome, ReasonersRad Geek People's Daily 2014-01-28 – Welcome, Reasonershttp://radgeek.com/gt/2014/01/28/welcome-reasoners/tag:radgeek.com,2008://geekery_today.20080306123829#comment-1599602014-01-28T17:29:02Z2014-01-28T17:29:02Z[…] On crutches and crowbars (6 March 2008), on why left-libertarian views on economic privilege and labor do not imply any compromise or gradualism on the abolition of all statist controls, including regulations that supposedly help workers. […]
]]>By: On crutches and crowbars: toward a labor radical case against the minimum wage | The Libertarian Alliance: BLOGOn crutches and crowbars: toward a labor radical case against the minimum wage | The Libertarian Alliance: BLOGhttp://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/on-crutches-and-crowbars-toward-a-labor-radical-case-against-the-minimum-wage/tag:radgeek.com,2008://geekery_today.20080306123829#comment-784872012-12-18T10:27:16Z2012-12-18T10:27:16Z[…] The following article was written by Charles Johnson and published on his Rad Geek People’s Daily, March 6th, 2008. […]
]]>By: Nanny State « Instead of a BlogNanny State « Instead of a Bloghttp://insteadofablog.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/nanny-state/tag:radgeek.com,2008://geekery_today.20080306123829#comment-449902010-06-07T18:28:10Z2010-06-07T18:28:10Z[…] Johnson understands the effects the state has on the labor […]
]]>By: Rad Geek People’s Daily 2009-12-23 – Dialogue ensuesRad Geek People’s Daily 2009-12-23 – Dialogue ensueshttp://radgeek.com/gt/2009/12/23/dialogue-ensues/tag:radgeek.com,2008://geekery_today.20080306123829#comment-426992009-12-23T19:56:56Z2009-12-23T19:56:56Z[…] If, on the other hand, you’re referring to the decades leading up to the passage of major government entitlement programs for the “poor and elderly” — programs like Social Security (1935) or Medicare (1965), then you need to keep in mind that these programs were introduced and rolled out decades after the non-corporate, grassroots, free-market alternatives that I discuss in the article had been deliberately dismantled by politically-driven campaigns — coordinated mainly by establishment medical guilds, using their power over government licensure of practitioners as their primary means of enforcement — to drive them out. (The blackballing campaigns against lodge-practice doctors in the U.S. ramped up in the mid-1910s and succeeded in forcing dramatic declines in lodge practice starting in the 1920s. See Beito, p. 124 et seq.) So, to the extent that government could point to a crisis of health care accessibility or affordability for the poor and elderly, just before the New Deal and Great Society transfer programs were created, it’s because government was pointing to a situation where the kind of grassroots, consensual social organizations that had made health care accessible to the poor and elderly had already been rubbed out by government in the decades prior. Once again, an example of government breaking your legs, then handing you crutches, and telling you, “See, without me you couldn’t even walk!” […]
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