They always trot out these economists and think tanks and other socially-acceptable vessels for conservatism to explain what’s going on.
Yaknow, people who love to say “incentives matter” when it comes to welfare spending. “If we pay people to sit around and do nothing, they’ll be spawning like mad and contributing nothing to the workforce!”
But then when they’re called in to explain why people are not spawning, and sliding further and further away from the financial conditions that would allow them to do so… Well, now it’s a matter of quirky generational trends or coincidences of individual choice.
I’ve noticed something about these pieces.
They always trot out these economists and think tanks and other socially-acceptable vessels for conservatism to explain what’s going on.
Yaknow, people who love to say “incentives matter” when it comes to welfare spending. “If we pay people to sit around and do nothing, they’ll be spawning like mad and contributing nothing to the workforce!”
But then when they’re called in to explain why people are not spawning, and sliding further and further away from the financial conditions that would allow them to do so… Well, now it’s a matter of quirky generational trends or coincidences of individual choice.
“Incentives? Never heard of em!”