Real world examples of JG are not universal.

In sum, there are three critiques presented here: (1) there is a fundamental tension in the way income in a monetary production economy is generated, the manner in which BIG wishes to redistribute it, and the subsequent negative impact of this redistribution on the process of income generation itself. The BIG policy is dependent for its existence on the very system it wishes to undermine; (2) The macroeconomic implications of BIG for contemporary economies that use modern money are devastating, whereas the JG stabilizes both the macro-economy and the currency, while helping transform the nature of work; and (3) the version of the job guarantee in Standing’s piece is not an accurate presentation of the modern proposals. Additionally, there are several real-world examples that, although not universal, illustrate many of the benefits of job guarantee programs. I shall focus on one such example, the Argentinean job guarantee program Plan Jefes y Jefas and its subsequent replacement by Plan Familias (a?type of income guarantee) to evaluate their relative merits.