&gt;Job guarantee proposals are minimum wage. Even if they were not, the idea that industrialists benefit from a &quot;docile workforce&quot; is couching things in a questionable Marxian reserve army of labor analysis.<p>Guilt by association with Marx? Seriously? That&#x27;s what passes for a rebuttal?<p>&gt;It&#x27;s not as if state-administered job guarantees are going to be tools of empowering the working class.<p>They were in the 30s. If you can drop your McJob and get a guaranteed job with decent benefits and pay with the Public Works Administration you can tell your boss where to shove it. That&#x27;s called &quot;empowering&quot;.<p>&gt;Nonsense. Keynes came from the neoclassical Marshallian tradition.<p>&quot;Reaction against&quot; would be more accurate. Keynes never had an equilibrium fetish (the kind that is used to pretend that unemployment isn&#x27;t a problem because &quot;a reversion to the mean is just around the corner&quot;).