Friday Reading- Diversity, Dogma, and the Dole _3

away point: it's more evidence of the ill-education of the American people. Only one in five Americans reads above a twelfth-grade level. And closer to home, my jaw falls open at Megan McArdle's take on unemployment: first the eyeopener that "unemployment is inherently unpleasant," then this:We cannot eliminate all the suffering inherent in unemployment,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and more to the point, I don't think we should; being on the dole for life should not be an attractive alternative to working. Here we have an early twenty-first century version of early nineteenth century British poor law: "A fundamental principle with respect to legal reliefof the poor is that the condition of the pauperought to be, on the whole, less eligible than that of the independent labourer." It was then--and is now--a highfalutin, moralistic justification for social programs that are inadequate to deal with the problem.The reality is that no one in America is "on the dole for life" and no one will for the foreseeable

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