because under capitalism getting a job is kinda difficult, painful process, so even many the 'voluntarily unemployed' may take up part time jobs if they had the chance and if it were provided for by the Government.
true, i think many billionaires want such kind of power, but i think for now they prefer to influence Government policy, and many ways it works better, i.e. no corpo-wars.
its much more lame, what state-like power does Musk have? None. All the corps in Cyberpunk have equivalent powers to nation-states, their own armies. McPolice and all.
i think closest to that irl currently is Palantir and some of the MIC Corps but they don't fight their own wars yet.
At least 'Birthday Party' was kinda funny.
Reducing debt requires continuous Gov surpluses, who's going to pay for it? Not his class I'm sure.
They could've let the deficit rise, lower taxes on the rich but keep the already low SNAP, Medicaid. But nope, not bad enough.
Why does it even matter? It's not like he has that much political power as a mayor. I will be happy to see basic socdem policies like free bus service, rent freezes, a few Government owned 'ration' stores.
Yea weird how it works. A Government deficit directly increases private profits especially when targeted towards those who don't (can't) save much. The capitalists prefer control over more profits sometimes.
It is true that profits would be higher under a regime of full employment than they are on the average under laissez-faire; and even the rise in wage rates resulting from the stronger bargaining power of the workers is less likely to reduce profits than to increase prices, and thus adversely affects only the rentier interests. But 'discipline in the factories' and 'political stability' are more appreciated than profits by business leaders. Their class instinct tells them that lasting full employment is unsound from their point of view, and that unemployment is an integral part of the 'normal' capitalist system.
https://delong.typepad.com/kalecki43.pdf
Its not even full employment anymore but scraps of welfare for people who are already working at poverty wages in the private sector.
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