no, i am not confusing anything. the right merely confuses Mickey Mouse jobs, to actually improving the efficiency of our economy.
Those "Mickey Mouse" jobs are vital for unskilled teenagers trying to break into the job market and you're trying to take them away.
not at all; there will always be a natural rate of unemployment under Capitalism.
solving for simple poverty on an at-will basis is simply more efficient.
And we can make it easier or harder for unskilled teenagers with no work history to break into the job market. I want to make it easier, you want to make it harder.
easier for what, to make less just so the rich can get richer faster?
What part of that is difficult to understand? When you are fresh out of high school at 18 years of age, have not held a steady job, and have no marketable skills, you NEED a low paying, unskilled job to establish a work history, get a favorable reference for a better job and learn some skills. No one is going to pay you a lot of money until you demonstrate that you are capable of doing valuable work, so jacking the MW higher and higher makes those jobs disappear and makes it harder for someone to break into the job market.
having recourse to unemployment compensation simply for being unemployed, means persons can go to school or vocational training for as long as they want. Only the right, never gets it.
What the right "gets" is that there is a set of people who will, as long as someone else is paying the bill, be professional students, continually "learning" and getting "training", but never actually putting those skills to use and earning a living. Unemployment compensation for when you're laid off makes sense, still getting paid after quitting a job is welfare.