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Blockade posted:Because we'll end up with either defacto state slavery or something like this over time: This honestly doesn't seem so bad, if it could be funneled into productive labor. The unemployed people participating in these programs appreciated the chance to be around other people, stay mentally engaged, etc. Why not just take it a step further - the main focus of the article was a lady engaged in secretarial work, the "fake" company she "works" at could say, take on excess administrative work from other government agencies that need it for seasonal reasons? Treat at as pool of what effectively becomes contract labor in any number of specializations for the rest of government, but is always hiring and pays salary (of course you can leave at any time to enter the private labor market, and the bonus there is that no one is going to bother for lovely hourly work - this becomes a floor for pay and labor practices). If there are more people in the program that can be reasonably put to work, just provide training - let them sit in classrooms, pick up certifications, etc, until they can be put to productive work. Or just shorten the work week for everyone. But at no point in this process does anyone have to worry about having their next paycheck come in. Now instead of this weird existence in a Potemkin village that produces nothing and yet still requires paying unemployment payments to her and a fee to the "training" company, she would be doing valuable work or gaining skills until she could. AreWeDrunkYet has issued a correction as of 22:19 on May 7, 2017 |
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