There’s a fascinating clip going around today of the Week on Wednesday podcast saying some stuff about disability and UBI. As a podcast that’s representative of Labor’s views as a party, it offers an important insight into the party’s overall thinking, perspective and ideology, and in particular the predominant “labour-inclusive capitalism” viewpoint I discussed in my previous post:
I don't understand how labour-inclusive capitalism is the best explanation here given your definition of it on your previous post. It seems Van and co would have the same view if we had socialist economic institutions. Their view doesn't rely on any particular view of the ownership and control of capital in a society. Better explanation is that they think work is inherently good for a person, thats why they say disability “structuralizes keeping people out of workplaces” and undermines “the agency of having a job”. They don't see work as a means to the end of the general public good, they see it as good for the individual.
I don't agree that it's quite so individual. There's definitely some protestant-style work ethic thing going on as part of it, but I think that's just part of the big picture vision of worker-inclusive capitalism.
I don't understand how labour-inclusive capitalism is the best explanation here given your definition of it on your previous post. It seems Van and co would have the same view if we had socialist economic institutions. Their view doesn't rely on any particular view of the ownership and control of capital in a society. Better explanation is that they think work is inherently good for a person, thats why they say disability “structuralizes keeping people out of workplaces” and undermines “the agency of having a job”. They don't see work as a means to the end of the general public good, they see it as good for the individual.
I don't agree that it's quite so individual. There's definitely some protestant-style work ethic thing going on as part of it, but I think that's just part of the big picture vision of worker-inclusive capitalism.