Productive Pluralism

Definition

Oren Cass:

"Productive pluralism is not satisfied with an efficient labor-market outcome per se. It requires a particular outcome: the provision of sufficient meaningful work to sustain families and communities. If the labor market settles on an efficient outcome in which large segments of the population lack meaningful work, our response can’t be to say “thanks, understood” and then to wait for those displaced people suddenly to transform themselves into something else, or simply to give them government aid. Our response must be “that needs to change.”

(https://lawliberty.org/oren-casss-productive-pluralism/)

More information

• Discussion at Oren Cass on Productive Pluralism vs Consumerism

• Book: Oren Cass. The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America. Encounter Books, [1]