Specifically the idea of 'maybe this job shouldn't exist, if it can't pay a fair wage'.
Minimum wage is really not a fair wage. In the UK, double minimum is getting close in some cities. In London, triple minimum wage is still essentially a child's salary, good for renting and playing around but not for building an actual life - state assistance is essentially required.
If you eliminate jobs that do not pay fairly (I think that the faint possibility of ever being able to do anything but work and/or suck on the State's teat is a reasonable definition of fair), there will either be nothing left for most of the population, or huge wage increases. I don't know which. I actually think it's worth the gamble, then we can actually deal with what unemployment (and the euphemism-tastic 'underemployment') actually means.
Specifically the idea of 'maybe this job shouldn't exist, if it can't pay a fair wage'.
Minimum wage is really not a fair wage. In the UK, double minimum is getting close in some cities. In London, triple minimum wage is still essentially a child's salary, good for renting and playing around but not for building an actual life - state assistance is essentially required.
If you eliminate jobs that do not pay fairly (I think that the faint possibility of ever being able to do anything but work and/or suck on the State's teat is a reasonable definition of fair), there will either be nothing left for most of the population, or huge wage increases. I don't know which. I actually think it's worth the gamble, then we can actually deal with what unemployment (and the euphemism-tastic 'underemployment') actually means.