“Zero Unemployment Explained” argues that full employment in the absolute sense, cannot be achieved within a coercive system where power disparities are a constant reminder that one lives in a stratified society. When there exists a group of elites who remain dependent on free riding off of the labor of others, unemployment serves as a constant threat to workers that they are not the ones who have the power. In this essay we highlight the disconnect between the value created by work and the compensation paid, attributing this gap to the power disparity between the people who produce the wealth and the state and capital. The text advocates for workers to reclaim ownership of the value they produce. When workers are paid the full value of what they do, then production will align with consumption, and this will produce full employment naturally. Citizens Assemblies as part of a Citizens Republic, restore to the worker his and her rights to the value they create.
