Capitalism requires a pool of exploitable workers
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Capitalism requires that there is a pool of workers available, beholden to the vagaries of the economy, and used as "factory fodder" whenever required and discarded when not required. This is one of the main reasons that certain rich capitalist democracies periodically start chipping away at the welfare state. It must not be too easy to not work.
Workers are often given a choice between poverty-line state welfare benefits and slightly higher poverty-line wages. If they refuse to take any job, their welfare benefits will be taken away. People are caught between a rock and a hard place and that is an integral part of capitalism. One cannot exist without the other.
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