Let’s start with some of the big questions. How to maintain funding for the welfare system in a non-growing economy? How do we manage the increasing relative costs of welfare? Overcome structural and behavior growth dependencies within the welfare system? Transform the welfare state for the better?
Now the thought experiment. What if we “answered” these questions with an observation that only initially seems far afield and entirely off tangent? Namely: Unfree labor flows and flows of illegal funds, goods, and services are a stable part of the global economy, not an aberration:
Two fields of scholarship, human trafficking for sexual exploitation and that of forced labour in supply chains, rarely intersect.” “In showing that unfree labour is a stable aspect of the contemporary global economy, scholars studying labour in supply chains challenge the idea that forced labour is an ‘aberration’ (Phillips and Mieres, 2014: 245) from the normal functioning of labour markets and that of unfree labour as the opposite of free waged labour.
That is, deregulation, liberalization and privatization not only introduce failure regimes–less stable by definition–where there were none before (e.g., once public entities can now go bankrupt, thereby undermining the welfare state), but also provide more stable markets for all manner of unofficial and illegal items.
“Welfare,” “state” and the “welfare state” have indeed been transformed. Its official non-growing economy is not the only economy of relevance anymore.
So it has always been, though arguably not as marketized globally as now. So what?
The observation would be banal were it not for its major policy implication. If asked, What makes for better planning ahead?, we should answer: Why even ask if you can’t learn better to plan and respond for now and the next steps? Or to put the point from the opposite direction: It’s not insignificant that most miracles are about healing finally.
Sources.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800921001245
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