I get food stamps, and I’m not ashamed — I’m angry

[angelo]

There are many, in fact perhaps the majority who are poor through no fault of their own. In saying that, there are also many who just won't get off their arses to help themselves. You can lead a camel to water, but you can't make it drink.

How many?

And are these who won't help themselves a reason not to help the people out here hustling everyday?

What about a means test? If there's a non skilled job nearby the person could do with his eyes closed, shouldn't he be obliged to work for a living like the rest of us?

 

[Canard DuJour]

Exactly. To maximise profit, you need no fewer than n workers and you don't hire more just because they're cheap. It is not the case, as you claimed in the post with which I took issue, that revenue diminishes per each successive hire from the first. Rather, revenue is uniform or increasing up to an optimum - n - determined by consumer demand for the product of labour.

Continuing to state this doesn't make it true.

Nor does repeatedly saying that make anything true or untrue. It's empty verbiage like "the reality is that" or "what you're missing is that" which eventually becomes a joke.

The problem is that no business does only one thing. There are many tasks which a business accomplishes, some of which do not have a clear cut "job done" state. While you likely can define an ideal number of workers for their primary task you can't thus define them for every task. For example, how much time is to be spent on keeping the business premises clean? You're certainly going to spend more effort at cleaning in a 5-star hotel than a fleabag hotel--but just how much?? The more expensive labor is the less of it you will devote to such fuzzy objectives like "clean".

Which is "marginal" in the dictionary sense of itty bitty difference at the edge - a common misapprehension among those unfamiliar with the sweeping claims of marginalism per neoclassical economics. I suggest some reading before returning to wow the board with erudition and reasoned argument.

 

[AthenaAwakened]

How many?

And are these who won't help themselves a reason not to help the people out here hustling everyday?

What about a means test? If there's a non skilled job nearby the person could do with his eyes closed, shouldn't he be obliged to work for a living like the rest of us?

Doesn't answer the questions. Have you not thought this through?

 

[angelo]

Hustling has more than one meaning. Are we talking about prostitutions?