Matthew Hoy

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Whining about how high unemployment is “unjust” is dangerously misleading nonsense. Justice creates a claim on others. So who is being unjust? The employers who cannot afford more workers? The consumers who refuse to create enough demand to justify more workers? The government for not taxing innocent parties to pay for labor that isn’t needed and that they did not vote for? Social justice assumes rights—social rights, economic rights, etc.—that cannot be enforced.
The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
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