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    1 year ago

    If you want the capitalist answer, at zero unemployment, companies have no room for expansion at all. Can’t make more product unless a new technology comes around to do more with the amount of people you already have. At the same time, wages will have an upward pressure as companies try to keep people, which in turn drives inflation. Alternatively, companies try to extract more value from people by working them harder and longer (which is more or less what’s been going on for the last few years). So the answer would be that everyone is harmed to some degree when employment is too low.

    Of course, it is not hard to imagine systems where everyone is employed just to pitch in a couple hours a week to get all the necessary work done, and are otherwise free to follow other pursuits.